Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a series of mathematical patterns called "changes".Change ringing differs from many other forms of campanology (such as carillon ringing) in that no attempt is made to produce a conventional melody.Today, change ringing can be found all over the world, performed in a variety of media; but it remains most popular in English churches, where it was developed in the 17th century. A church's bell tower typically contains a set of few large church bells rigged to swing freely and known as a ring of bells.The considerable inertias involved mean that each bell usually requires its own ringer. Thus, contrasted with a carillon, in which a large number of bells are struck by hammers, all tied into a central framework so that one carillonneur can control them all, a set of such bells is comparatively unwieldy—hence, the emergence of permutations rather than melody as an organizing principle."@en }
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- Change_ringing abstract "Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a series of mathematical patterns called "changes".Change ringing differs from many other forms of campanology (such as carillon ringing) in that no attempt is made to produce a conventional melody.Today, change ringing can be found all over the world, performed in a variety of media; but it remains most popular in English churches, where it was developed in the 17th century. A church's bell tower typically contains a set of few large church bells rigged to swing freely and known as a ring of bells.The considerable inertias involved mean that each bell usually requires its own ringer. Thus, contrasted with a carillon, in which a large number of bells are struck by hammers, all tied into a central framework so that one carillonneur can control them all, a set of such bells is comparatively unwieldy—hence, the emergence of permutations rather than melody as an organizing principle.".