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Subclass of
musicology
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is the study of
bell
topic's main category
Category:Campanology
Commons category
Belfries
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Encyclopedic overview

20 sections
Contents
  • Etymology and definition
  • Forms of bellringing
  • Full circle ringing
  • Veronese bell ringing
  • Bolognese bell ringing
  • Change ringing
  • Method ringing
  • Russian Orthodox bellringing
  • Carillons
  • Chimes
  • Ellacombe apparatus
  • Bellfounding
  • Bell tuning
  • The major third bell
  • Bell organizations
  • Famous Campanologists
  • See also
  • Citations
  • General and cited references
  • External links

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Campanology () is the scientific and musical study of bells. It encompasses the technology of bells—how they are founded, tuned and rung—as well as the history, methods, and traditions of bellringing as an art.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “campanology” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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