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This might be two ways of saying the same thing, but I wonder if it’s less about culture and more about having a lot more big-giant-bell-era churches. Not that
by Waterluvian 1y ago
This might be two ways of saying the same thing, but I wonder if it’s less about culture and more about having a lot more big-giant-bell-era churches. Not that you implied your observation is about culture. I’m doing that.
- tesseract 1y agoMany of those big bells in other cultures are on fixed mountings (in a carillon, for instance). The idea of mounting the bell on a rotating wheel - which imposes limits on what music can be played due to the rotational inertia of the wheel, therefore leading to a unique style of composition - is distinctively English.
- FearNotDaniel 1y agoSpecifically, it’s a subculture that emerged in the Church of England in particular - other churches in England built with big bells - Baptist, Methodist, Catholic and so on - are not built with the kind of bells that do this kind of ringing.