Articles and posts discussing the mini and micro bells, made by people to help practice and teach handbells.
My dad has a large collection of small bells, most of them originally servants bells. For many years they festooned his house, hanging from the picture rails, but recently he has been trying to assemble them into tuned (or tunable) sets for other projects. The first result is the set...
This quarter caught my eye on BellBoard last week, rung by Matt and Jess Durham and Andrew Booth on a new set of mini-bells. Judging by the photo, the conversion has come out very well. I assume that Andrew made them, because I think Matt and Jess would have...
In a previous post I described the Christmas cracker bells. Yesterday I finished converting the clappers; I haven't done the handles yet as I don't have enough leather left after making Angela's mini bells. So now we have a set of micro bells. Amazingly, the tenor of the...
Jonathan and Angela have been away for some winter warmth in Oman, and they rang a quarter on Angela's mini-bells. Splendid!
A while ago I offered to make a set of mini-bells for Angela, partly because she doesn't have a full-size set, and partly to see how long it would take now that I know what I'm doing. I ordered all the parts, put them away neatly in a box, and...
On Saturday we had the annual Scottish Association training day, at which I was running a Bristol group at Dunblane. At Angela's suggestion I took the mini-bells, and although we didn't have time to do any ringing during the day, we did get them out in the pub after...
As mentioned on the blog previously, I followed Richard Johnston's instructions to convert a set of coloured toy handbells into a decent set of practice bells by fitting them with better clappers and leather handles. Here's what you end up with:
It's amazing how good they sound, considering that the...
I have been roadtesting our new set of amped-up Kidsplay handbells these past couple of weeks.
(We have gotten into the habit of calling these the 'toy handbells', but we really need a better name....any suggestions?
As I had hoped, these handbells have been very useful to the Handbell Club. ...
We did not manage quite the amount of handbell ringing we had anticipated over the holiday period - the usual suspects, 'flu and family events, conspiring against us.
However, Simon completed a project we had been talking about for quite a while, and the quiet period between Christmas and New...
Wednesdays are the day that I run the Handbell Club over the lunch period, and after our success with the students at the Scottish Handbell Day, I was thinking about ways to keep that momentum. I was also thinking about how to catch the other pupils up.
The bad news...