The Bells, the bells...

[David.Orton@mail.bl.uk (David Orton)]

Apologies if this has been dealt-with previously, but in terms of early-day
loopers, have you considered the case of (church) bell ringing?

I was visiting friends in the north-west of England at the weekend, and was
struck by the possible synergy of bell ringing/looping as I passed a 
bridal 
party outside the main church in Macclesfield, where the local 
campanologists(sp?) were `giving it loads'. A bit ramshakle (in a pleasing 
way) 
to my ears (as phrases moved around in time seeming to stretch and 
contract 
smoewhat randomly), I had a quick search on the Web and found the 
following 
page:

                 http://www.spec.gmu.edu/~msorell/bells.html

which gives some info on how the peals are constructed. I'll not copy it 
here in
case this is too far from what everyone's interested in (plus good old 
copyright
concerns), but it might well be worth a visit to those interested in the 
polyrhytmn/in-&-out of sync debate.

PS there was also a man playing bagpipes down the road from the church, 
but I'm 
not prepared to get into that right now - love those drones, though...

David

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