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Master class on bell ringing for the visually impairedtranslated

September 26, 2026 · 1 min read

On September 26, graduates of the bell ringing school of the Simbirsk diocese at the Spaso-Voznesensky Cathedral gave a lecture and ringing master class for participants in the Ulyanovsk branch of the All-Russian Society of the Blind.

Guests of the cathedral learned that each bell has a “head”, “shoulders”, “ears”, “tongue”, “torso” (torso), got acquainted with many bright pages of the “bell history” of our country, and listened to the traditional Rostov, Moscow, and Pskov-Pechersk trezvons.

Interesting topics for discussion were the differences between modern and lost bell foundries, bell “profiles”, variants of church bells and compositions of bell bronze.

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Емил Ангелов
It is interesting that they started with the anatomy of the bell—head, shoulders, tongue. We have one old bell in Varna where the tongue is almost as thick as a hand, and when the ringer moves it, the sound is quite different. And about the Rostov peals—those are always a separate story. It was good that they showed them both by touch and by hearing.
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