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Tower Bell

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Tower Bell (Bell)

(n.)
a cup-shaped cast bronze bell, of a size suitable for hanging in a tower; normally thicker at the sound bow where the clapper strikes. All bells listed in these Web pages are presumed to fit this definition unless otherwise stated.
(Some listed instruments are made of other kinds of bells, or of cup-shaped bells cast from a different material, but used in the same manner as tower bells.) The exception is great Oriental bells, which have a very different profile and no sound bow.
All tower bells in listed instruments are presumed to be hung dead unless otherwise stated. The exception is rings.


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