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Re: Bellringer Exchange



They've asked about this weekend or next for doing the exchange.  If anyone
has opinions either way, please let me know.

Abby

On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 8:58 AM David Maker <forksandhope sbcglobal net>
wrote:

>  For zvon bell ringing at Lowell House, see also a thorough and
> entertaining article in the April 27, 2009 issue of The New Yorker.
>  (Merely googling "New Yorker Danilov monastery" took me right to it, 
> just
> now.)  There are many videos accessible too; 
> https://youtu.be/_nx4EYj7Mk4 is
> a good example.
> Happy January from an enthusiast,David MakerEllington, CT    On Saturday,
> January 7, 2023, 09:55:20 PM EST, sarah moriarty via 
> Boston-change-ringers <
> boston-change-ringers cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:
>
>  Hi all -
> During the early days of the COVID pandemic I had the privilege to join a
> Zoom session with the Harvard bellringers of Lowell House. I know a few
> of our MIT ringers have visited Harvard Lowell House, and one of the 
> monks
> from the Danilov Monastery visited us at Church of the Advent. 
> Mathematics
> Professor Noam Elkies and a few of his colleagues were on the Zoom and I
> was so glad to meet them virtually as I work in IT at Harvard. Here's a
> quick article about their bells:
> http://www.russianbells.com/interest/harvard-danilov/harv-dan-13.html
>
> I'd encourage us to connect wherever possible with the Harvard bells and
> the Boston ringers of Church of the Advent and Old North in Boston!
>
> Best,
> Sarah
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 7:47 AM Abigail Noelle Timmel via
> Boston-change-ringers <boston-change-ringers cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > It took me a little while to realize this went to an MIT internal 
> > address
> > which I am probably responsible for; sorry about the delay in passing 
> > it
> > on.  I responded saying this would be cool and referred them to Kat 
> > about
> > visiting and the logistics of going to their practice with Old North
> > service ringing being right before.
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Ty Kannegieter <tkannegieter college harvard edu>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 4:50 PM
> > To: guild-of-bellringers-contact
> > Cc: Tessa Conrardy; Connor Chung
> > Subject: Bellringer Exchange
> >
> > Salve amicis,
> >
> > My name's Ty, and I'm one of the co-presidents of Harvard's Lowell 
> > House
> > Bellringer Society. I was recently made aware of MIT's bellringing
> society,
> > and we were wondering if you and your organization of bellringers would
> be
> > interested in potentially visiting each other's bellringing sessions?
> >
> > As you may or may not know, we ring Russian style bells on our side of
> > Cambridge. Lowell House notably housed the bells of the Danilov 
> > Monastery
> > (seat of the Russian Orthodox church) during the 20th century. Today, 
> > we
> > ring a replica set of the Danilov bells, only ours have additionally 
> > been
> > tuned to a western scale. This makes our bells the only ordained 
> > Russian
> > bells able to play melodies of classics such as Orff's "O Fortuna!" or
> > George Michael's "Last Christmas". Our largest bell, Mother Earth
> (pictured
> > below), weigns some 13000 kg, and is in fact, quite awesome. It's kinda
> > neat if you ask me.
> >
> > We would love to arrange a time or times where we visit each other's
> > ringings! We ring sundays at 1pm, and it appears you have a ringing on
> > Saturdays as well as Sundays. Would you potentially want to organize a
> > weekend where some of our members visit your practice at the Old North
> > Church on Saturday and some of you attend our ringing the following
> Sunday?
> > We would love to share bellringing knowledge and get to know our fellow
> > ringers!
> >
> > Please let me know, and happy holidays!
> >
> > Best,
> > Ty
> >
> > [
> >
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