Europe's last bell foundries combine old and new techniques. Centuries-old craftsmanship meets modern technology at Grassmayr ...

I’ve always loved church bells — their power to be heard over great distances of land and water, the various human emotions they are capable of evoking: nostalgia, loneliness, happiness, alarm, ...

If you hear the word “tintinnabulation,” you are almost certainly going to think of Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, “The Bells,” perhaps only because you are unlikely to remember anyplace else you’ve heard ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This past week the “bourdon” bell of the newly restored Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris rang for the first time in five ...

Church bells in Vindry-sur-Turdine have stopped ringing because they kept residents up at night For generations, the church bells of Vindry-sur-Turdine have rung every half hour, all day and all night ...

A man who has rung hundreds of bells in churches throughout the country from his wheelchair is campaigning to save the bells ...

Seven of the original eight bells date back to 1774, and were probably cast in Crediton. The eighth bell was cast at the world famous Whitechapel Foundry in London by Thomas Mears in 1814. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. +++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 ...