Ring in the new

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"Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a series of mathematical patterns called 'changes'. It differs from many other forms of campanology (such as carillon ringing) in that no attempt is made to produce a conventional melody."

(More in the Wiki article)

I have only heard change ringing at St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney.
The bells in this photo here hang in Jerusalem's Augusta Victoria bell tower on the Mount of Olives. I think these German bells are not rigged for change ringing, which is more of an old English tradition.

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A video of change ringers in action, pulling the ropes which turn the big bells 360 degrees, is here.

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City Daily Photo bloggers are sharing their ideas about changes for our Theme Day today.
Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
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The civil new year day is not a holiday in the Jewish State but we wish all who are celebrating a happy new year.

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Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New

(from "In Memoriam") by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (England 1809-1892)

Ring out the old, ring in the new,

Ring, happy bells, across the snow;

The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind,

For those that here we see no more;

Ring out the feud of rich and poor,

Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,

And ancient forms of party strife;

Ring in the nobler modes of life,

With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,

The faithless coldness of the times;

Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,

But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,

The civic slander and the spite;

Ring in the love of truth and right,

Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease;

Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;

Ring out the thousand wars of old,

Ring in the thousand years of peace.

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(To see the last verse or to hear the music, see http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/r/i/ringout.htm.)

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