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Definition of Change ringing
1. Noun. Ringing tuned bells in a fixed order that is continually changing.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Change Ringing
Literary usage of Change ringing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Change-ringing.—When a given number of bells are rung over and over again in ...
The general principle of all methods of change-ringing is that each bell, ..."
2. Carillons of Belgium and Holland: Tower Music in the Low Countries by William Gorham Rice (1914)
"... APPENDIX F ENGLISH BELLS AND change ringing AND OTHER NOTES MR. WW STARMER in
an address in 1905 says: "English bells are very heavy compared with those ..."
3. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1877)
"Many of my hearers are doubtless not aware of the gulf which separates what is
called ordinary round ringing, and what we call change-ringing. ..."
4. The English Catalogue of Books [annual] by Sampson Low (1881)
"8vo, 9s Hodder Oct. Wikoff(.ff.) Reminiscences of an Idler, with Portrait, sm.
8vo, 9s New York June Wigram (W.) Change-Ringing, ..."
5. The Illustrated Magazine of Art (1854)
"Parnell gives the following account of the probable invention of these changes:—"
The earliest artist and promoter of change-ringing of whom we have any ..."
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