![]() ![]() To the ordinary man, in fact the pealing of bells is a monotonous jangle and a nuisance, tolerable only when mitigated by remote distance and sentimental association. When he speaks of the music of his bells, he does not mean musicians musicstill less what the ordinary man calls music. ![]() By the English campanologist, the playing of tunes is considered to be a childish game, only fit for foreigners the proper use of bells is to work out mathematical permutations and combinations. The art of change-ringing is peculiar to the English, and, like most English peculiarities, unintelligible to the rest of the world. Copyright © 1934 by Doroth Leigh Sayers Fleming ![]()
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