Church bells

Member since 20 November 2020

ElegsabiffMember23 December 2020 17:30:52

My local church chimes the hour and half hour from 9 am to 9 pm, and occasionally gets all joyous for weddings, and rings for services, all straightforward. Can anyone tell me why every now and then it chimes 40, 50, even 60 times, then a pause, then 1, 2 or 3 chimes? No-one who speaks English in my town knows and my Spanish isn't good enough to try in Spanish.

I'd heard it is for funerals and will chime the age of the deceased, then once for male, twice for female (three times for?) We've had no virus fatalities and anyway it can be a week or more of silence, then several days in a row. so (a) that would mean we save up our dead for days at a time and (b) it is not a good town to live in if you are 40, 50 or 60.

I've had a Spanish guests staying here when it happened and asked her but she said doesn't happen in Madrid, or if it does she never noticed.

Other guests have asked about it and I feel an idiot not knowing.

kittycat1 Serial expat

Member since 16 April 2013

kittycat1Serial expat01 March 2021 21:35:08

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Elegsabiff,

Apparently there is a whole
'Church Bells Chimes' Code / Language'
dated from The Ancient Medieval Times (nineth century) (s.IX)
at least in whole Europe

in some other worse scenarios.. it would be your lovely upstairs neighbours' cuckoo-clock

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FredIndonesia Expert02 March 2021 01:31:23

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kittycat1 wrote:
Apparently there is a whole
'Church Bells Chimes' Code / Language'

I love to learn about new things - Thank you for your post

Elegsabiff Member

Member since 20 November 2020

ElegsabiffMember04 March 2021 09:35:25

Thanks Kitty! It still doesn't explain the multiple rings but I love the idea of the language of the bells and listen to them with more understanding now聽

kittycat1 Serial expat

Member since 16 April 2013

kittycat1Serial expat07 March 2021 20:36:33

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Fred wrote:
kittycat1 wrote:
Apparently there is a whole
'Church Bells Chimes' Code / Language'

I love to learn about new things - Thank you for your post

You are welcome..
the funniest thing is
we think that here now in the 21st century
we know everything..

however our ancesters without internet they made a good living

Almost about the same time of the Bells' coding / language..
centuries ago something stealthy was going on..
another slying squinty code was around..

'Dangerous Liasons' 1988 film