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A frozen scream of bronze that only speaks when you hit it.
means A hollow, usually cup-shaped metal object that rings with a clear tone when struck or shaken, used to mark time, summon people, or signal events.
from From Old English 'belle,' a word that stayed close to home in the Germanic family — a cousin of Dutch 'bel.' It's likely tied to an old root meaning 'to roar' or 'to sound loudly' (the same noisy ancestor behind 'bellow'), so the name was always about the voice, not the shape.
- Crack legend
- The Liberty Bell cracked on its very first test ring.
- Big Ben
- That name is the bell, not the tower.
- Bronze recipe
- Best bells are roughly four parts copper, one part tin.
- Tsunken tone
- Sailors once rang bells to warn of fog and rocks.
- Tuned overtones
- Each bell sounds five distinct notes at once.
for instance
liberty bell — cracked bell in philadelphia that rang for american independence in 1776
great bell of dhammazedi — world's heaviest bell at 348 tons, cast in burma in 1504
tsar bell — world's largest bell by weight at 216 tons, cast in moscow in 1735