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In folk tradition, it is recorded that each church and possibly several farms had their specific rhymes connected to the sound of the specific bells. An example is the Pete Seeger and Idris Davies song " The Bells of Rhymney". Titsingh, Isaac (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. Siyun-sai Rin-siyo (1652). Nipon o daï itsi ran. Rubino, Anthony (2010-03-18). Why Didn't I Think of That?: 101 Inventions that Changed the World by Hardly Trying. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4405-0698-7.

Rama (1993). Cloches de France et d'ailleurs (in French). Paris: Le Temps apprivoise. ISBN 2-283-58158-3. OCLC 414929215. In Russian Orthodox bell ringing, the entire bell never moves, only the clapper. A complex system of ropes is developed and used uniquely for every bell tower. Some ropes (the smaller ones) are played by hand, the bigger ropes are played by foot. Jennings, Trevor (1988). Bell Founding. Princes Risborough, England: Shire. p.8. ISBN 0-85263-911-2. Large bells are generally around 80% copper and 20% tin ( bell metal), which has been found empirically to give the most pleasant tone. However, the tone of a bell is mostly due to its shape. A bell is regarded as having a good tone when it's "in tune with itself". [24] In western bell founding, this is known as "harmonic tuning" of a bell, which results in the bell's strongest harmonics being in harmony with each other and the strike note. This produces the brightest and purest sound, which is the attractive sound of a good bell. A huge amount of effort has been expended over the centuries in finding the shape which will produce the harmonically tuned bell.Jain, Hindu and Buddhist bells, called " Ghanta" (IAST: Ghaṇṭā) in Sanskrit, are used in religious ceremonies. See also singing bowls. A bell hangs at the gate of many Hindu temples and is rung at the moment one enters the temple. [16] Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference

Why do Hindus ring bell in temple". 6 January 2014. Archived from the original on 12 March 2015 . Retrieved 4 March 2015.Pummerin in Vienna's Stephansdom is the most famous bell in Austria and the fifth largest in the world. [ citation needed] The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge. Vol.3. Encyclopedia Americana Corporation. 1918. Historically, bells have been associated with religious rites, and are still used to call communities together for religious services. [1] Later, bells were made to commemorate important events or people and have been associated with the concepts of peace and freedom. The study of bells is called campanology. [2] Etymology [ edit ] 13th c. BC bell, Shang dynasty Douglas, Marietta (June 2002). "What is a Carillon?" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-04.

The traditional harmonically tuned bell has a minor third as a main harmonic. On the theory that western music in major keys may sound better on bells with a major third as a harmonic, production of bells with major thirds was attempted in the 1980s. Scientists at the Technical University in Eindhoven, using computer modelling, produced bell profiles which were cast by the Eijsbouts Bellfoundry in the Netherlands. [26] They were described as resembling old Coke bottles [28] in that they had a bulge around the middle; [29] In 1999 a design without the bulge was announced. [30] However, the major bell concept has found little favour, and minor third bells are almost universally cast today. Bells in Japanese religion [ edit ] Wind-powered bell under temple eaves,. Banna-ji. Ashikaga, Tochigi. Great Tom is the bell that hangs in Tom Tower (designed by Christopher Wren) of Christ Church, Oxford. It was cast in 1680 and weighs over 6tons. Great Tom is still rung 101 times at 21:05 every night to signify the 101 original scholars of the college. The Liberty Bell is a 2,080 pounds (940kg) [31] American bell of great historic significance, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It previously hung in Independence Hall. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers (worldwide) - promotes English style full circle change ringingThe Tsar Bell by the Motorin Bellfounders is the largest bell still in existence. It weighs 160 tonnes (180 tons), but it was never rung and broke in 1737. It is on display in Moscow, Russia, inside the Kremlin. Starmer, W. W. (1902). "Bells and Bell Tones". Proceedings of the Musical Association. 28th Session: 25–44. JSTOR 765451. To make this instrument, Kyrgyz foremen used copper, bronze, iron and brass. They also decorated it with artistic carving and covered it with silver. Sizes of the instruments might vary within certain limits, what depended on its function. Every bell had its own timbre. The tenor (heaviest bell) of the change-ringing peal at Liverpool Cathedral is the heaviest bell hung for full-circle ringing.

In more recent times, the top of bells in China was usually decorated with a small dragon, known as pulao; the figure of the dragon served as a hook for hanging the bell. Sigismund is a 12 tonne bell in the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, Poland, cast in 1520. It is rung only on very significant national occasions. The Great Mingun Bell is the largest functioning bell. It is located in Mingun, Burma, and weighs 90 tonnes (100 tons). British Carillon Society (Great Britain, Ireland, Northern Ireland) - https://www.britishcarillons.org

Huang, Houming (2002). "Prehistoric Music Culture of China". Cultural Relics of Central China (3): 18–27. ISSN 1003-1731.