Draft:List of public bell-ringing places

This MIGHT BECOME a list of notable, significant places where individual bells (and carillons?) can be wrung by the public.


 * Ireland
 * Church of St Anne, Shandon, former(?) Church of Ireland church where visitors who pay a few pounds can climb __ steps to its "first floor" (and __ further to the bells at the top of the tower). You can pull a tune like "Don't cry for me Argentina" (not mentioned in foodandtravel source but other tunes are)


 * United States
 * Not sure if Mayer Red Brick Schoolhouse can be included, would need a source that its historic school bell can be rung by visitors to the school district offices that occupy it. Can that properly be said to be open to the public?

There exists List of carillons, which are played by keyboards only? It doesn't include Church of St Anne, Shandon, because that is in Ireland and while it includes sublist of those in the "British isles", so northern Ireland, or is the nation of Ireland included? Or is it excluded because it might have an automated system to play the bells? The bells can definitely be played individually. I think you have to wind up something to be able to power the bell-pulling? Or is that electric-powered and therefore not legit for list of carillons?

There is Cornell Chimes, but that is not included in List of carillons in the United States, why not?

Other lists of bells that exist (now put into new Category:Lists of bells):
 * List of heaviest bells
 * List of carillons
 * List of Hitler bells
 * Is there a List of bell towers?

OR, INSTEAD PERHAPS

This is a list of notable individual bells? and bell towers? and carillons? There are 97 members of Category:Bell towers in the United States. E.g. Albany City Hall has a bell tower with a carillon involving 49 bells. How about listing bells, bell towers, and carillons in the United States by state? And which ones are open to the public could be noted.

List of individual bells
INDIVIDUAL BELLS, ANYHOW, are:


 * in Myanmar
 * Great Bell of Dhammazedi
 * Mingun Bell
 * Shwezigon Pagoda Bell
 * Singu Min Bell
 * Tharrawaddy Min Bell


 * in the United States
 * Liberty Bell, the most famous, in Philadelphia
 * Bell Circles II
 * Cloke Plaza bell, on University of Maine campus in Orono, Maine
 * Freedom Bell, American Legion, a 2:1 scale replica of the Liberty Bell, at Union Station, Washington, D.C. Cast outside the United States (at Petit & Fritsen in Netherlands) because no bell foundry in the U.S. could make it.
 * Illinois Freedom Bell
 * Japanese Peace Bell, a bonsho at headquarters of the United Nations, New York City
 * John Brown Bell, claimed "second-most important bell in American history", stolen (seized?) from Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1861, now in Marlborough, Massachusetts
 * Justice Bell (Valley Forge), New Jersey
 * Kaskaskia Bell State Memorial, Illinois
 * Kobe Bell, aka Friendship Bell, Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington
 * Korean Bell of Friendship (dedicated in 1976), San Pedro, California
 * Korean Temple Bell
 * Liberty Bell (Denver)
 * Liberty Bell (Oregon State Capitol)
 * Liberty Bell (Portland, Oregon)
 * Nauvoo Bell, Salt Lake City, Utah
 * Pokahuntas Bell (1907), was intended to go to the University of Virginia
 * Temple Bell (Boston)
 * Varsity Bell (1861), aka Denny Bell, University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. The 400-pound (180 kg) bell was cast in Troy, New York in 1861 [so by the Meneely Bell Foundry?]
 * Victory Bell (University of Portland)
 * World Peace Bell (Newport, Kentucky)
 * Lord Baltimore (bell), Baltimore City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland


 * elsewhere

List of bell foundries
LIST OF BELL FOUNDRIES?

Bells are not easy to make and tune. Well-tuned bells have a hum tone that is near an octave below the strike tone, and other partials. Other notes in large bells that should ideally be in tune include the minor third, fifth, octave, and major third and fifth in the second octave. [adapted from Erfurt Bell article].

François and Pieter Hemeny "developed their ability to build and tune carillons in close cooperation with Jacob van Eyck, a musician and composer who developed a method of precisely identifying the overtones of bells. Van Eyck, appointed city carillonneur of Utrecht in 1642, had drawn the attention of leading scientists of his day, such as Christiaan Huygens (his relative) and René Descartes, with his ability to isolate five partials of a bell by whistling to create sympathetic resonance. / When struck, a bell produces a number of partials which, if imprecisely tuned, can create an unpleasant sound and which prevents it from harmonizing in accordance with other bells. To address this problem, the Hemony brothers gave their bells a particular profile and thickened it in certain places. The bells were then tuned by hollowing ridges from specific parts of the inner wall until the first few partials were acceptably in tune." [from Pieter and François Hemony article]


 * United States
 * Bevin Brothers Manufacturing Company (1832), East Hampton, Connecticut. Per Bevin Bells - About there have been 30 bell manufacturers in East Hampton during 1808 to now, including Starr Bros., N.N. Hill, and Gong Bell.
 * McShane Bell Foundry (1856), Baltimore, Maryland, "the only surviving large Western-style bell maker of the many that had once operated in the United States" [per wikipedia article], manufactured more than 300,000 bells [per wikipedia article], moved to Glen Birnie, Maryland in 1979 then to St. Louis, Missouri in 2019
 * Meneely bell foundries
 * The Verdin Company


 * United Kingdom
 * Bilbie family
 * Edward Cockey
 * Gillett & Johnston
 * Miles Graye
 * Hatch bell foundry
 * Christopher Hodson (bellfounder)
 * John Taylor & Co
 * John Warner & Sons
 * Mears & Stainbank
 * Richard Phelps (bellfounder)
 * Rudhall of Gloucester
 * John and William Rufford
 * Salisbury bell foundry
 * John William Taylor
 * Hugh Watts (bellfounder)
 * Whitechapel Bell Foundry


 * Russia
 * Andrey Chokhov
 * Yemelyan Danilov
 * Hans Falk (bellfounder)
 * Kashpir Ganusov
 * Alexander Grigoriev (bellfounder)
 * Danila Matveyev
 * Motorin family
 * Flor Terentyev


 * elsewhere


 * Pontificia Fonderia Marinelli, Italy


 * Albert Benningk, 1637-1695, Germany then Denmark
 * Fonderie Paccard, from 1796, France
 * Grassmayr Bell Foundry, Austria
 * Pieter and François Hemony, 1600s, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
 * Franciscus Illenfeld, 1500s, Moravia, Slovakia, Kingdom of Hungary
 * Juutila Foundry (1881), Finland
 * Olsen Nauen Bell Foundry (1844), Norway
 * Petit & Fritsen (1660-2014), Netherlands
 * Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry (1872), Netherlands
 * Vanden Gheyn family (1506-1900s), Belgium
 * Geert van Wou,


 * modern craftspersons/artists maybe not notable:
 * Leamy Acoustic Art, Canada