[NYer]

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[NYer]

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[TaMoDee]

Quasimodo is happy!

[Joe 6-pack]

May they drown out all the muezzin calls in Paris!

[88keys]

ping for later - THANKS for posting!

[Berlin_Freeper]

Bing Sings "The Bells of St. Mary's"

Casting Crowns - I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day Live

[sphinx]

The new bells, made using medieval methods like pouring bronze into clay, horse manure and horsehair moulds, are the same weight and diameter as ones destroyed in the Revolution. They ring the same notes but in a lower tone. The idea is to recreate the richness and harmonies of the pre-Revolutionary sound without slavish imitation.

This is a quibble, but as a history nut, I find this odd. Perhaps the story is just carelessly written, but it makes it sound as if they changed the sound of the bells just for the sake of change, which is the kind of modernist subversion that I dislike. But perhaps there is a better explanation.

I would be happy with, "The old bells were melted during the revolution and we don't know exactly how they sounded, so we did this." Or "the old bells were wonderful but slightly off key, so we fixed that." Or perhaps there is some other musical rationale. But "the old bells were sublime, but we didn't want to slavishly imitate so we changed them," is not the way I would treat a world historical site.

FR being what it is, I trust an expert on church bells will be along by and by.

[KC_Lion]