handbell
Sign in to saveA handbell is a bell designed to be rung by hand. To ring a handbell, a ringer grasps the bell by its slightly flexible handle – traditionally made of leather, but often now made of plastic – and moves the arm to make the hinged clapper strike the inside of the bell. An individual handbell can be used simply as a signal to catch people's attention or summon them together, but handbells are also often heard in tuned sets.
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- Handbell
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- Instrument.classification
- Percussion
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- Sets of clapper bells
- Instrument.inventors
- Robert and William Cor
- Instrument.developed
- 1696–1724
- Instrument.related
- Bell Handchime
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20 sectionsContents
- History
- Terminology
- Characteristics
- Performance
- Music
- Ringing techniques
- Multiple-bell techniques
- Four bells
- Six bells
- Weaving
- Other techniques
- Notation
- Handbell tree
- See also
- Other
- Notable Composers and Arrangers
- Performers
- References
- Sources
- External links
A handbell is a bell designed to be rung by hand. To ring a handbell, a ringer grasps the bell by its slightly flexible handle – traditionally made of leather, but often now made of plastic – and moves the arm to make the hinged clapper strike the inside of the bell. An individual handbell can be used simply as a signal to catch people's attention or summon them together, but handbells are also often heard in tuned sets.
==History== Handheld bells have a long history. Credit for the development of the modern hand bell, or "handbell", is accorded to brothers Robert and William Cor in Aldbourne, Wiltshire, England, between 1696 and 1724. The Cor brothers originally made latten bells for hame boxes, but they began tuning their bells more finely to have an accurate fundamental tone and fitted them with hinged clappers that moved only in one plane.