Rodney Myrvaagnes wrote:

> The NY Times had a story about Trinity (I am on a boat, and the New
> Yorkwer piles up at home). This one was about tower bells.
> 
> The church had installed a new swinging peal of 12 bells (National
> Cathedral only has 10) and removed the automatic dinging machine for
> the existing bells to make room for change ringers.
> 
> The new bells range from 550 to 2700 lbs IIRC, and have a steel tower
> structure to hold them up. The old bells are still there.
> 
> So we will have change-ringing in lower Manhattan, in the home of the
> world's most elaborate AFKAT. I hope they appreciate the irony.
> 
> So as not to upset the neighbors, they have shutters to close off the
> tower.
> 
> I don't know whether to laugh or to cry.
> 

St. Mark's, Philadelphia (I think it was) moved their change-ringing 
peal up into the spire to muffle it, on account of complaints from the 
neighbors; when the area around the church ceased to be residential, 
they moved it down again (chuckle).

Cheers,

Bud Clark
San Diego CA USA

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