+++ON HOLD++++ Sitting in a chair with ropes looped around both feet and hands, Joan Carles Osuna, a student of the Vall d'en Bas School of Bell Ringers, performs playing all four bronze bells at the ...

JOANETES, Spain — Xavier Pallàs plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish valley below with the reverberating peal of a church bell. Clang-clong!

In a little room near the top of a tower, people stand in a circle. Each holds a rope wrapped with a few feet of soft carpet as a handle, and when someone shouts, everyone pulls. At first you hear ...

Writing a column about bell-ringing is, in a way, a hopeless endeavor. The experience is like taking a photocopy of a photocopy — the product takes you further from the art at hand, the lived ...

When the church bells of France or Italy ring out in the sparkling air. they are apt to sound joyously at random or to strike the lilting cadence of a set tune. But such lightheartedness seems foreign ...

The climb to the top of Boston’s Old South Church bell tower is a labyrinth of steps and catwalks stretching more than 200 feet into the air. Thin railings are the only thing to hold on to as you trek ...

A WOMAN taking part in a bell-ringing tour became tangled in the ropes of a cathedral bell, broke her leg and was left trapped up the bell tower. The 50-year-old, from Lismore in NSW, spent an hour ...

JOANETES, Spain (AP) — Xavier Pallàs plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish valley below with the reverberating peal of a church bell. Clang-clong ...