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   What materials are bells made of?

   • While decorative bells can be made of such materials as horn, wood, glass, and clay, bells that are designed to ring or to play music are cast in a bronze alloy of approximately 77% copper and 23% tin. This combination produces a tough, long-lasting material that resists rusting.

   How bell is made - material, making, used, dimensions, procedure

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   How a bell is made?

   • Every bell is created with thicker inner layer so that bellmaker can shave of small pieces of its metal and fine-tune its sound. Tremendous help in this part of bell creation was given by tuning machine that was discovered in 19th century. 6.

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   How were church bells made?

   • By then, production of bells was moved from dedicated metal foundries to the church sites themselves, and in some cases, directly inside church walls. Arrival of Renaissance and Gothic architecture demanded that church and other public bells be created in incredible sizes.

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   What are Asian bells made of?

   • Asian bells are non-swinging and are usually struck manually on the outside with a wooden mallet. While decorative bells can be made of such materials as horn, wood, glass, and clay, bells that are designed to ring or to play music are cast in a bronze alloy of approximately 77% copper and 23% tin.

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   How do you make a bell?

   • Bell making process consisted of six distinct steps: 1. After receiving order to create a bell, bell maker first had to create precise plans of the shape and sound of the bell. After estimating weight, size and shape, appropriate amount of metal had to be collected (most popular alloy was bronze, usually with 4:1 ration of copper and tin). 2.

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   What makes a bell a great sound?

   • Using the 3000 year old mixture of bronze (4:1 ratio of copper and tin), bell founders managed to forge incredible creations that still put awe into people who managed to experience their sound. Created over a long process, bells were specifically made to amplify their resonance, and produce pleasing sounds that can reach distance of many miles.

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2. www.bells.org › how-bells-are-madeHow Bells Are Made | National Bell Festival

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   The craft of casting bells is both a science and an art, requiring exact calculations and precision engineering combined with delicate finesse and design. To make a bell of lasting quality, bell foundries today follow similar methods to bellmakers a thousand years ago.

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   Some small bells such as ornamental bells or cowbells can be made from cast or pressed metal, glass or ceramic, but large bells such as a church, clock and tower bells are normally cast from bell metal.

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   Bells are musical instruments and tools of communication that have been in our history since ancient times. Their construction, gathering of materials and fine-tuning at first demanded gathering of large amount of resources and manpower, but as the centuries went on and metallurgy techniques advanced, creations of bells became more commonplace ...

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   Every bell has a distinctive ring: from the festive jingle of sleigh bells to the clang of the boxing bell that marks the beginning of a fight. Stream Full E...

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   Raw Materials. While decorative bells can be made of such materials as horn, wood, glass, and clay, bells that are designed to ring or to play music are cast in a bronze alloy of approximately 77% copper and 23% tin. This combination produces a tough, long-lasting material that resists rusting.

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   The shape of bells depends on cultural environment, intended use, and material of construction. The walls vary from straight to convex, concave, hemispherical, barrel shaped (as in East Asia), and tulip shaped with sound bow (the bulge near the rim), as are all tower bells in the West.

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   Created over a long process, bells were specifically made to amplify their resonance, and produce pleasing sounds that can reach distance of many miles. Today, bells are created from the smalles decorative sizes to the large 300 ton bells that are viewed as some of the most important national treasures.