Inside a Bell Tower: Change Ringing at UChicago's 17th century Mitchell Bell Tower.

What happens when math, music and exercise come together? Every Saturday the Change Ringers climb UChicago's Mitchell bell tower to demonstrate how a 17th century instrument supplements a 21st century education.
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[@jonnydee6427]

Always loved the bells, not done it for years now but I was 15 when I was taught how to do it . The bells in video are beautiful.

[@adamm2693]

So are there regular practices here in ordinary times? I was moving to Iowa which sadly is a state with no bell towers like this, so this will probably be my nearest tower & would love to keep ringing, even if sometimes!

[@liamscoullar6019]

these bells sound like the Anglican cathedral in Liverpool

[@richardharrold9736]

Nowhere near as big, and the tower is thankfully of much more compact dimensions. Liverpool Tower and its bells are way too bloody big, just results in a wash of noise.

[@ingolfkuss4764]

I love this old style of music.

[@mister-v-3086]

IF Count Dracula can claim that howling wolves is "...the music of the night," then, by all means, ringing bells in this manner is MUSIC. and an art.

[@Steven_Rowe]

Change ringing has always been Anglo Saxon and many would think that don't ring would assume that people who ring are somehow church going people when they normally are not. it is nice to see a Chinese American in the band. I do know of other rings of different ethnicity and I hope that it really becomes multicultural. To strive for excellence in change ringing is great and it put you in a state of mindfulness

[@adamm2693]

Dublin had quite a few different ethnicities of bellringers, including Italian, Swiss, Brazilian and Japanese!

[@Steven_Rowe]

@@adamm2693 i got ro ring at St Patricks. A lovely Taylor 12

[@markork1702]

@@adamm2693 in st patricks cathedral offers teaching you how ring the bells by affordable payment, in Dublin ireland

[@adamm2693]

by payment? i thought theyd teach for free like everywhere else!

[@Steven_Rowe]

@@adamm2693 Nobody charges to ring bells,I think this is a wind up. They welcome with open arms people who want to learn

[@watchguy79]

That’s so cool!

[@katewalsh2502]

Id love to try that.

[@Steven_Rowe]

You should, is fun and when your ringing it take you away from everyday problems. Is the sound and the concentration.

[@edmilner]

I am building a simulator very simulator to the one featured here. I also plan having it mounted on the floor but worried about how high I can install a pulley. Your setup looks interesting with rope going onto the wheel from both sides. I can't work out what is going on but I think it has something to solving my problem. Would you mind explaining the mechanics please?

[@poly_hexamethyl]

0:04 What's wrong with the clapper on this bell? It seems stuck, is the bearing frozen?

[@tomfarthing2014]

The clapper is intentionally held fixed by a “silencer”, which prevents the clapper from striking the bell. That allows us to practice without disturbing the neighborhood. Sensors in the belfry connect to a computer which generates bell sounds where the ringers are. We are allowed to take off the silencer for about a half an hour every month or so.

[@poly_hexamethyl]

@@tomfarthing2014 Thanks for the explanation. Wow, only half an hour every month? That seems very limiting. I like the sound of bells. I wouldn't mind hearing them every day. Times change I guess...

[@richardharrold9736]

@@tomfarthing2014 what the hell? That is such bullshit! Half an hour a month? Most towers here in the UK average about half an hour a day!

[@adamm2693]

​@@tomfarthing2014 i see yous are replacing these.. was lookin forward to tryin the old ones !😑 but best of luck to yous!! hopefully yous wont have to have them silenced as often with new soundproofing !

[@ringeradam4575]

Fully muffled for practice?

[@certifiedvip]

Ringer Brick yea

[@rkt739]

I don't think Mitchell Tower is _itself_ from the 17th century

[@RingerThomas]

I think the 9th is up wrong.

[@JosephCee]

LOL the dude with the long hair looks so unhappy to be there.

[@Bailey2006a]

More math nerds than musicians. Group Theory ain't music theory

[@cathodez]

Someone’s overthinking their job.

[@adamm2693]

?!