The Intricate Dance of the Alaskan Bell Ringers

[@superEN30]

I'm a church bellringer in the UK, and it's really interesting to see a different take on ringing bells. I ring with our traditional "full circle" style, where the bells are hung on wheels and the rope is tied to the bell "headstock" and passed through the rim of the wheel down through to the floor below. When we pull the rope, we're actually moving the wheel and the bell, not the clapper inside, so the bell hits against the clapper not the reverse as shown in the video :) This is a very crude description, but the physics of ringing full circle are a little more complicated.

[@noodlepipkin]

superEN30 hmmm. Don't you also eat Mars bars unlike this lady?! 😂#jumpjump

[@superEN30]

:P

[@AllonsyRapunzel]

Only nerds ring it that way

[@superEN30]

yeah you are a nerd rosie :P

[@samuelwardell1233]

superEN30 the bells swing 360 degrees, so they bells is inverted from mouth down to mouth up every time you pull the rope

[@MarenAnne66]

Call me a romantic, but I love the idea of a generations tasked with such a lovely tradition.

[@AllonsyRapunzel]

I'm a bellringer from the UK (where we ring the bells completely differently) and my Grandfather is a bellringer, as is my Grandma, my Dad, my Mum, my Godmother and my Sister. To be fair it just causes more arguments!

[@HistoricaHungarica]

4 generations of miners in my family (i would be the 5th, but i won't be), most of the time when they talk(ed) about work they start(ed) to nitpick each others' technique, how the other has/had it easy, etc. And my grandpa was once kicked out of my great-grandfather's house because gramps wouldn't want to work in the same tunnel as my great-grandfather. He was 16. Needless to say the following month was awkward at the entrance of the shaft for both of them.

[@elmatador9086]

HistoricaHungarica Never thought I'd hear about a family argument surrounding mining.

[@miguelthedoofus55]

Tradition is peer pressure from dead people

[@SG-bp4lg]

Man Alaska's pretty

[@Knoar]

It only looks like this a couple months out of the year. The winters can look like Iceland.

[@Crushenator500]

I have no idea how you find such ultra niche stories, but I love it. Especially this late in the summer.

[@sonahuk]

I'm from Bristol Bay and hearing these bells calms my heart and soul, thank you.

[@cindy4628]

so much vibrant green, it's beautiful there

[@cheekmcbreek1146]

And then winter comes

[@leyah18]

Wow it's a lovely and peaceful place, I want to live there.

[@rkeriadavis790]

same I've always liked the idea of living in a place where I can disconnect from the world and there aren't that many people, but I fear that in the future everywhere will have overpopulation

[@dogguy8603]

Ley Kim learn how to, stalk, kill, gut, clean, and process your own food first, also carry a gun with you constantly, because of bears

[@karinajaylene1292]

@@dogguy8603 we don’t have bears here...

[@karinajaylene1292]

you should, the community here is lovely and very interactive and diverse.

[@joelandrew9688]

Very expensive to live there

[@jcortese3300]

"It's not as easy as it looks," she says, while doing something that doesn't look easy AT ALL ... Very cool.

[@nugett506]

Unalaska is in Alaska Creative

[@miroslavm2553]

Beautiful, touching story. If I ever come to Alaska, definitely will visit this charming place.

[@mreyeball3085]

Unalaska is full of surprises

[@Προκείμενον]

Church bells - so fascinating!

[@szeklergeneral4266]

well its an orthodox church so of course multiple bells are ringed at once

[@chir221]

Yes

[@goldenboy2674]

These stories are a welcome change from all the bloated self centered celebrity stories you are bombarded with on a daily basis on youtube.

[@skitmaster4130]

I love living at the island

[@johnnyschuler1997]

Love video, editing and content is great. Do you guys compose your own music or is it from somewhere?

[@monikamonia6250]

That's a great story 😊

[@beastkilla6680]

Monika Monia boi

[@rustyjamesjacildo2449]

Forget about masters degree or phd, i want to have a title as the bell ringer.

[@brandelynmarie]

It's beautiful💚

[@johnwidmann1674]

This instrument is a Zvon, a traditional Russian set of bells. Cool. The English swinging bells referred to by another comment are a peal or ring. In continental Europe, particularly in Belgium, the Netherlands and Northern France, they have carillons. More bells, recognizable music, more precise tuning.

[@littlebrookreader949]

I am astonished.. ❤️❤️❤️

[@v4nes54]

Amazing

[@raphaelkgh218]

vanessa yeah!😍😍😍😍😉

[@EXPHunterForce]

How do you find your topics to create videos on?

[@chillinbro5423]

Is this the same place where lots of eagles live

[@sasquatchdonut2674]

Yes, the same state

[@elijahalvarez1557]

Finally one million subscribers

[@GreenPenguinSliding]

That's really cool

[@jorgeriverajr1745]

I have to go there one day :')

[@s.mcqueen8149]

I live in Alaska! (Wrangell)

[@suemahigian5088]

Wow!

[@ninogizeta]

Fantastico !

[@BenDover-oc6qt]

It's an ALASKAN BELL RINGER

[@Liam-ub1uk]

Lovely video, but it only tells us about a singular Alaskan Bell Ringer, not "the Alaskan Bell Ringers"...

[@9786oof]

Liam her dad and her progeny?

[@aleutb0i478]

well not all churches have bells like this most churches have 1 or 2 or many not all church bells are like this one in unalaska

[@james_m2533]

I would've kind of liked to have actually heard her ringing them

[@rowanp8740]

You... did? 0:00

[@BHuang92]

Do they still do that in Russian orthodox churches?

[@evang7252]

BHuang92 yes

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

ofcourse they do. ... what did you think? Its the Orthodox Church. Tradition is tradition and cant be changed.

[@Aqsaitaaq]

That church is a russian style

[@bradleyjh4939]

It's a Russian Orthodox church....

[@nunyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

You do realise Alaska was part of Russia

[@SANKYUNGLUZON]

It is the first bell notes in the orthodoxian christianity they are common

[@dotdankory]

Had 1 Video On The Top ^

[@gammakeraulophon]

Could really have extended this to include an uninterrupted sequence of the bells playing itself. As it stands, it's just a half documentary without that. For some the sound that the bells make is as important as the human story of who makes the bells ring.

[@Dylan-le9zi]

It’s truly a curse, if you string them together right with a few guide lines and distance properly you just need to pull one string to ring a endless amount of bells at once or staggered out to right one after another or even get fancy with different elasticity and make it into a repetitive chime playing of each string.

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

that is not how Orthodox bell ringing works. There is much more to it.

[@datnguyenthe8300]

Is that church russian?

[@aleutb0i478]

yes its a russian orthodox church

[@yumyumwhatzohai]

No it's Alaskan.

[@aleutb0i478]

@@yumyumwhatzohai it's a russian orthodox church in alaska

[@alharthy50]

"From whom the bell tolls." (Metallica)

[@saintlove83]

Me too

[@hppflinbubble4996]

Notification squad were you at🌹🙌🙌🎉🎉

[@JohnnyD3986]

heh im 10 and i know how to this! i have some bells and ring them like this at my little treehouse

[@danielcuevas5899]

So is it Alaska or not?

[@aleutb0i478]

yes unalaska is located in alaska

[@aleutb0i478]

another name is dutch harbor

[@antoniogutierrez-jm4oh]

russian church in america

[@annatham4591]

You can find this in Russia

[@reinpinebook825]

but Alaska was once part of Russia.

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

it has nothing to do with russia ..... it has to do with orthodoxy. This is an Orthodox Church.

[@Odseparator]

I would use in this case a mechanism with a lot of pulleys so she don't have to hold few strings at one time. With two cranks and set of pulleys she could play a music in this bells. Then it will be a music instrument.

[@jackrose3522]

Oh the arora 🔔 ringers hood stolen.

[@PrincessGold1]

This is done in Russia. Perhaps the Russian presence in that area brought this technique to Unalaska.

[@yumyumwhatzohai]

Well no shit it's an Orthodox Church

[@marvelstudious4938]

Her name sounds like when of those name that you randomly type in after all your cool names have been already taken

[@seanbenedictespanacruz]

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[@KamTV__]

Is this a skill, I don't get it.

[@aleutb0i478]

yes it is. its not easy you need good hand leg coordination that and think of it as multi tasking

[@thomaspark3475]

Would your ancestor have rang bell during Russian rule of the former church this looking like of outside part?

[@aleutb0i478]

now thing is is that when russia discovered alaska their were 2 types and what do you think 1. the fur traders 2. the russian orthodox faith now the orthodox faith wasnt like the fur traders and the faith taught the natives of alaska their faith now the fur traders on the other hand killed native mammals for the fur

[@thomaspark3475]

@@aleutb0i478 The church was different looking supposedly before tower added at front.

[@Basso-dmitrofundo]

Alyaska nasha

[@Meowgang123]

Lmao.. unalaska

[@Basso-dmitrofundo]

Alyascka nasha

[@Knoar]

Ummm.. I've been to Dutch Harbor/Unalaska about 20 times and never seen or heard this church.

[@aleutb0i478]

maybe try being there on sat. evenings or around 10 or 9 in the morning

[@imkindahungry04364]

NO! NO! NO! It goes TING TING TONG not TONG TING TING!

[@eth6706]

Could be easily automated and controlled remotely

[@namewithay]

Yes but that's not the point.

[@silverchoweez]

You know, i'm not religious, i'm 100% atheist, but even i understand the symbolic of a tradition in the name of god. There's a "sacrifice" in that task, something that is kind of forgotten in our society, and i don't think it's a bad thing to contribute in their faith like that.

[@samiiic.7289]

ChubbyChub yes but it's not free and if they can't afford it they would have to build it on their own and that takes really long plus it's a tradition

[@9786oof]

But why would you want to

[@HistoricaHungarica]

By the looks of it i doubt this... Old building. Plus it might be under UNESCO protection.

[@playboyagent7586]

They could just change it to speakers 🔊

[@anthemsofeurope2408]

This is forbidden in Orthodoxy

[@angelinadiaz9269]

Third comment

[@usmanvines1809]

frist i am

[@vennbecartyfan5684]

First comment

[@cabbage4254]

This channel is circling the drain.

[@claymodelexpert]

Jacquelyn Merz how so?

[@JohnJohnson-ok4gf]

There are no gods. And the bells are annoying as hell.

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

lol yeah sure honey buns.

[@dominicguye8058]

Here we go again 🙄

[@seanbenedictespanacruz]

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