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Re: Bellringer Exchange
Hi everyone,
The Harvard ringers shared a video from the bell jam at the end of our
visit when some of us got to try ringing the bells:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zpbq5k7CHrGChFC-zu7IUKXQmM4K-nL4/view?usp=sharing
Also thanks to everyone who came out on a very cold Saturday to host our
visitors, they say they really enjoyed it!
Best,
Abby
On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 5:04 PM Abigail Timmel <abigailtimmel gmail com>
wrote:
> 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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