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bell guitar and the same timing and dec. labelle symbolized leon. so from above it for moving people to quickly consume church bells are still used to summon people to worship and to give a rhythm to celebrating the liturgy. they are much more than just a fascinating instrument. yet the me, the bell is the symbol of calling. and have been called aden's and of responding. ah, this high book minster rises majestically at the center of germany's southernmost city. and the peeling of its 18 bells is also well noun. court comma knows the belfry of the fiber minster like the back of his hand. he is one of the world's leading camp apologists or bel experts and architect by profession. he began

acquiring bel expertise in 1972 to kind of unknown to fund was he thought, tune i knew nothing about bell just to acknowledge me so. so i went to the board, master library and calls are also given that gave me everything available on the subject of the skipper was to get off of just a few days. i was enthralled potomac, if i became crazy about bells or cup got white one, but all that happened to make of hard to me do me a pursuit site for more than 40 years until his retirement caught. com. i worked not only as the bell expert for the archdiocese of high book, but also for others. he is overseen the maintenance and restoration of numerous bells and bell towers. but dearest to his heart is the fiber of minster and its bells. especially the oldest one called the hosanna caston, 1258 went on cups, tindy's pallid, widowhood. hosanna had issues pretty early in my career to come from to had to be

restored and taken from the tower. city knew how can be done, these things connected me to a sound and then the dismantling of the hosanna was absolutely breathtaking out to arden, perhaps excited every one in fryeburg the does meet become non want. so can we frustrate i visited the tower quite regularly. i once described it as my living room when you have it is not mine, but i feel at home here in the 1st moment i arrive. if you to meet us now complete . when here come with 2 hours a, the hosanna is over 750 years old, one of the oldest surviving bells of its size. it rings regularly on fridays at 11 in the morning to commemorate the suffering and death of jesus. and it's popularly known as the sped sla bell sped sla, our noodles traditionally eaten at lunch time in south western germany and 11 as the right time to put the water on to boil for lunch and the ringing of the hosanna

always leaves quick commerce speech. plain mm. and even the, she's in the close of her. it's keepers no bell if that actually can be compared to the hosanna. i used to be the who the sound is from last april is tune for weeks upon. it takes several elements to make a bell ring. all are clearly visible in the hosanna. keystone has the lower edge of the bell and under which is called the sound, but the clock that's where the bell is struck and the sound of your juice. honda combining all the bells tones zak. look at the thought when tuttleton sent for some cassettes. just then not get the full. so he olden, this is milton you asked, raised and fastened very high as a counterweight to the bell. given cousin of the bell could be wrong more easily, like bob, especially in the middle ages when the bell struck. just look and silent. now there are wheels answering the comb, chemically. you are the machine, the clock,

it's wrinkling, and i guns 50 cause element is done. the clover. the clapper is also very important for striking the bell. so not that you might have wrought iron, which has a special quality the eisen one dish, me the eyes not only performed of equality, not validate, quality depends heavily on the quality of the clapper. a pig hi bill of minster has 18 bells that were perfectly attuned by quote, comma, a few years back so that together they produce a wonderful sound. witness to this also includes adapting on mc c. drew square. when the 18 bells ringlets you can feel for me,

mister thomas can almost tremble with the vibrations of the bells to got fussed from baby diesel. welcome. each day bells summoned the faithful to worship in fiber minster. there's a specific bell that signals the start of the mass. the sacristy bell ah, bells also play an important role during the catholic liturgy when the priest says the words of consecration during the mass. smaller hand bells or a gong indicate this sacred moment. and it's followed by one or more bells ringing out from the bell tower. a special moment for worshippers and pedestrians. for me is this to me, it's the call of god every day. as it's a me, his cloud based is the foundation of my life and log a minus live. and i'm lucky, i live nearby. the internet is hosted who audi q. i hear the bells and it's a reminder to pray. to pause a moment to talk back to be awake,

a call to awaken loves i finished the clock when i hear the bell. i'm a believer of why i rejoice in him. he gives me a good feeling once a day, and i also always know what time it is wednesday, close to her as a technician mannequin. my children actually noticed the hold and i do it when it's quite never in, but i'm happy when the children respond to them. when to stand off that often they, i really enjoyed the salary as they are shown and torn, van and bells fascinate many people. but few seem to know how this extraordinary musical instrument is made. an oldest family own church bell foundry as located in the town in about 90 kilometers north of franklin. a gluck and spiel welcomes visitors. blinkers have been making bells in 1590 hunts, martin lincoln, and his brother, or the 13th generation, to run the foundry. they've already cast several 1000 bells and are casting another today. you know, the bill where costing today is full, full time in tone,

was offline. the mountain chapel doesn't have a bill, so we're going to make a bill for them today, or witness the birth of a bell word on it. or if i'm nervous, we're always a bit tense before casting a bell goes on to religion. careful preparation is essential because if the casting is faulty, the bell has to be melted down again. in preparation for casting, the bill makers have produced a mold. this involves weeks of work. the mould consists of 3 sections. first, the inner core, which is made of bricks and several layers of loam. the outline of the bell is drawn on a wooden template called a stricken board. successive layers of loam are applied with the help of the template until they reach the inner edge of the bell. thus in, over here, this is a cross section there can it's made of a break and is coded with loan, lima. but the surplus loan is scraped off by this trickle life and then the whole thing is dried and the mold is cut out on the next line as which are blown on an

extremely in y'alls reserve. then the 2nd part of the mold is constructed. this is called the false bell inscriptions and ornamentation that will decorate the bell are added to its surface. these are made of wax and will melt away later. finally, an outer mantle is applied to the false bell. the 3 parts bell, cor, false bell and cope are each coated with a layer of tallow and a muddled on when the copays finished and has dried. this is lifted off these organ . i'm the so called false phil. it's marginal bill. then we fit the again and the gap is created, which is latest filled with brawn. as i am at 4 sir griffin is now comes the casting firmly bricked in the earth stands the mold made of clay. that's how the poet fleet re, sheila described, the casting process in his song of the bell. the finished bell moles are generally buried in the earth. for this procedure, the molten bronze flows through channels from a huge cast iron furnace to the molds. for smaller bells,

like the one being cast for the mountain chapel at whole time, the mold is simply placed in a steel box. the bronze is melted in a crucible, then comes the big moment. a delegation from the church has come here to witness the event. a parishioner says a prayer, i meant to go all mighty god, lord of heaven love you guns. a ship full for the whole of creation proclaims your prize listing, including with the ringing of bells ziegler. the physical, also last last molten brice of i direct its flowing a hula it in the walls is a clock out your spirit on all those who hear this bell and open the heart to other people your limits. amen. bring her when we cast bells for a liturgical purpose, bells that invite people to prayer or to worship it seems appropriate to say a prayer. i'm labs and we do all we can in terms of craftsmanship, foyer,

debated. we have everything humanly and technically possible. journalist about we also want god's help rich dish and fulton um over we will not earlier on let us cast in god's name and got us numb. gisela, the molten bronze flows through the pouring hole into the cavity between the core and the cope. silence is necessary to allow the foundry master to pay full attention to the gurgling of the liquid. the mould must be free of air bubbles. they were. now all that remains is to wait and see. it takes 3 days before the bell has cooled enough to be taken out of the sand. the decisive moment has come. the whole time bell has been separated from its cope and cleaned, but was the cast successful time for the professional judgment of a camp. an ologist could comma has come to inspect the bell. bell founder thinker strikes it for the 1st time with a heavy clapper. her moon,

huh. is to light it. she uses a tuning fork to check the bells harmonics. the various talents produced by the sound bow combined to produce each bell's unique sound. his verdict is positive. filing of the, my acoustic analysis confirms the impression created by the clapper, because i thought of one the phone bell to, to harmonics. very nicely structured. oh, it went up from the strike no, to the tears in the quint, simply wonderful. i was in all sector cuz you were in long, and we're also happy with this casting minded. and now we just hope that the people of huff heim will be happy when the bell is mounted on their mountain chapel yet where it will hopefully remain for century older on the halton road. not far from the thinker bell foundry is guy finch. dine castle since 2012. it has been home to gluck and felt a museum housing, the most important collection of bells in germany,

where you can explore the history of the bell could come. i helped set up the museum. his dedication and knowledge has won him the ironic nickname of bell pope, but he prefers a nickname he received at a camp analogy conference. the decoy stone hill damage shock sir, clung that then the french minister of culture and a famous leftist i gave his opening address of the conference haunt had bequeathed greeted me, went and then leafed through his book, but couldn't find my name upon find an arm and so he said, i welcome must you have been bam. the sunday i found that so touching, i actually much prefer that name to make me feel people good karma has published several books on the cultural history of the bell to this day. the church bell is the acoustic symbol of christianity, but why? the origins of the bell are in fact much older than the christian religion. the

oldest extent bells come from china, and around 4 and a half to 5000 years old. the bill advanced from asia along the established trade routes. eventually it reached israel via the silk road. the suit until mottled f system to sir judaism was the 1st religion to adopt the bel officially onto my list of hebrew scriptures record the practice of hanging. 12 small bells on the hem of the high priests. rogue haunt. it's lay symbolized the mystical connection between heaven. enough for being dull did swell was a number you couldn't count on the 10 fingers of your hands husbands. he finished ivan say it was a symbol of the incomprehensible. thus, if not truest sense of the word, because the flicker historical documents reveal that the bell soon became a symbol of mystical truth in christianity as well. the theological understanding of the birth death and resurrection of jesus. itinerant monks from ireland brought this tradition to continental europe,

where church bells became wide spread around the year. 600. they were used by monasteries and installed in church towers as close to heaven as possible if loca had, with my early christian period, the bows out the task of connecting heaven and earth to for being. so it is called a faithful to pray you into like a ticket, and he carries our prayers up to heaven life and also brings and arms or from above . it says pinion by proclaiming the gospel message from on high keyboard tiffany hidden widow quinn, albany, vomited her. this is how the church bell became christianity's acoustic symbol. a function it fulfills to this day, bells summoned the faithful to prayer and to worship, and they divide the day into periods. they fulfill this and roll in monasteries in downtown cologne, a bustling western german city, a community of nuns follow the traditional rule of saint benedict. the sound of the bell establishes the rhythm of their daily life. sister, a manuel, a cool hoss has been the prior arrest in charge of the convent for 12 years. she

explains the place bells have in monastic life. when the actual study of miss a life is much more influenced by bells the most people in the home, we also have a lot, a surprisingly many as i discovered which they are all. but i'll show you some of them found out this is our dining room side, which we call the refectory tour. we own that. if we take our meals here and we asian silence like, and i, niemen, we sit facing each other as we do in church and kick off to one. 0, and this a bell here too. when he threw it in yet my for, you know, the bell signals the start of meal time in unsung and is the smallest handbell we use as it is forbidden and then she, that's when the sisters line up to say grace sybil. oh,

going vol. turn often. so oh, when we can native and there's another peculiarity we discovered thus ya, it's diesel. this is what we call the temp a cod. perhaps it refers to the temp a bell twice a week in august and i don't know what that name means. exactly. from plant i assume it comes from the french latan, one time crunch. the sisters can be summoned individually. each sister has a specific signal that one to 10 than i than one, pause to, etc. i'd be happy to show you how it works. wow, cool sister sada maria amaya deaths for so it can be heard in every corner of the house of that from the attic to the

seller offices. all of that. and that's been our system for calling somebody in this big house before. there were any cell phones in the nuns follow the rule of saint benedict whose motto was aura at la bora pray and work sister clara. art has been a nun for 25 years. she has been living in cologne since 2017 growing and processing herbs is her passion, and her main work. for me is to take a me to the rule of saint benedict. the balance is between work and prayer, but is very important. we have on all we need silent prayer and rest all were but we also need human contact. this does that. it will benedictine life means for me. and gain of us sister clara has been making teas, ointments, and even room spray for about 4 years. now. most of the herbs come from her own monastery garden for fellow sisters, enjoy the benefits of her home remedies, some of which are also sold at the monastery gate. when the bell rings for prayer,

the no, no, she has just 10 minutes to tidy up. and i'm fun hobby's at the beginning i found it very difficult, quoted us and i wanted to finish something would or i wanted to continue reading a book away, but now i think says no, it's good. then thank you. recharge your batteries in prayer is could be then you can keep going of fights looking among and you get new insides system and isn't so not so obsess of as was it can be good to focus the side of it was focus here to sign obviously. but it's also good to let go. so lawson, the bell is wrong again. shortly before prayer time. sister raphael is the bell ringer to day. she 1st has an electric bell. then a handbell is run in the cloisters. finally the large bell in the church tower rings out the tower bell is still

operated by hand. by pulling on a rope. the nuns follow the bells call several times a day. there's a total of 7 prayer times each day, plus daily mass. the bell is the nuns, constant companion structuring every day. prayer. the sisters line up in the cloisters, when the prior, his sister, a manuela gifts, the sign, they enter the church together. prayer can then begin the school at sings a gregorian chant. oh, mister, do when you leave with as many bills as we do here, it becomes routine after a while. as esther only when i think about it, do i ask myself what it actually means? and thicker?

i think it has wealth of meaninglessness. first of all, i think calling is an important aspect of our lives to really of when we talk about a religious calling young, we believe that god has called us to walk on this path and to live in this way on to him and somehow the ringing of the bells symbolizes this feeling of being cold and of responding, said he, bending ah, back to frankfort churches, and their bell towers are an integral part of european towns and villages. they characterize the cityscape and their ringing off and drowns out the noise of every day. life, however, in the lutheran church of the 3 kings in frankfort, a mind, the bells are currently silent. the church tower and the belfry are undergoing extensive repairs. the specialized knowledge of a camp and ologist is once again required. could cromwell comes to the construction site architect and site manager mike when lie and bout hold up from the construction company payroll tell him about the progress so much today. we'd like

to discuss how the work in the belfry should proceed as o. d. cloquet friends to colonel, we can ring bell 5 today who sold to bill for is also ready order. next we want to lower bell 3 and it's yolk with the pulley block. it's on to and then swap the auction. so dis, yorktown token. and then i think we should take a look at bill 3, i from and helen girl. they take the elevator to the 14th floor, which leads to the belfry, there are a total of 5 bells, the fitters carefully lower bell number 3 with a pulley block. it's been hanging on a steel yoke which needs to be replaced. the new yoke is made of oak because wooden yolks improved the sound of a bell. in guns, the whole point of this work is to replace the old steel yokes because they make the sound very hard and you don't want that. the wooden yolks have a softening effect, so they damp in the sound

a bit. i did that will definitely improve the ringing on dirt languages in fostering of them. one of the bells is already mounted on its new wooden yoke. here caught comma has to check whether everything is fitted correctly and above all, whether the bell sounds good. a bell will ring again for the 1st time since the church tower renovation began 2 years ago. oh, it has a very nice sound. now the clapper include all that still needs a little time before it will work properly. yes, the leather is brand new. okay. okay, we can start ringing on that. i didn't feel they are. oh, the new clapper still has to settle, innovate the quick comma is otherwise satisfied. then there's another important topic on their agenda. could comma and my quinn lie,

discuss how to optimize the volume of the bell. sound louvers are attached to bell tower windows for this purpose. they guide the sound of the bells out of the belfry when the tower was being repaired, the old blue verse proved to be faulty. asked aloud louvers of the famous thought this week. i mean, in terms of sound technology, the shoreline, the sound arrives here in charlie and is directed to straight downwards by these louvers expedited or that means as directed at the neighboring houses. boards are being attached to the back of the louvre to reduce the pressure of sound. the neighbourhood should be shielded from noise pollution and it will improve the sound when the repairs are done. the bells can again play their role in the tradition of frankfort spells on high church holidays. all the bells are frank for its 10 inner city churches bring one after the other. an attraction that draws large crowds. re montoya, cloister eustace. can you walk through? it's quite an experience of the church of the 3 kings in particular,

the reason important contribution to my life because it's on the other side of the river and on july goose. well, it's a very important link between the individual churches. it's been deletes vision. i think the people of frankfort will be really happy when the bells of 3 kings find me ring again in here who tycho's excursion interest with a load. the sound of the church bell is often lost in the hustle and bustle of every day life. yet with its call to prayer and reflection, the bell has been connecting heaven and earth for centuries. even millennia. you might say, the ringing of bells is an eternal fascination to the face. i'm firmly convinced the bell has a future on it, so couldn't top it as a rich horse. i can also inspire the future, could fail, commit, believe, and cotton as it gives us one horse during the di, hoc for prior to all by for work. so for reflection dimension with no, it helps many people to be comp reflect on the meaning of life defense ego. because

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