Need help with a name of a bell please.

gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
edited May 29, 2007 in The Big Picture
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  • RogersDARogersDA Registered Users Posts: 3,502 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2007
    gus wrote:
    Its a rotating set of bells (six) with smaller ones outside that row (four of the smaller) and its turned by hand & as it turns on this crank handle the bells all peel. Its about 5 feet in diameter in an iron decorative frame & each of the larger bells are about 12" long.

    I think ive seen them used as town warning bells in old spanish/mexican westerns.

    Anyone know what they are called ?

    The only one that comes to mind is a carillon. Pehaps like this?
    David
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2007
    RogersDA wrote:
    The only one that comes to mind is a carillon. Pehaps like this?
    Yes, that sounds right.

    http://www.sptimes.com/2006/04/13/images/xlarge/carillon041306_430341.jpg
    Sid.
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2007
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  • RogersDARogersDA Registered Users Posts: 3,502 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2007
    gus wrote:
    Thanks guys but this is only maybe chest height & 1 foot wide & really looks just like a miniture ferris wheel & it has a crank out the side to sound them.

    O.k. I call that a "toy"!! :D
    David
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2007
    RogersDA wrote:
    O.k. I call that a "toy"!! :D
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2007
    I don't think I've ever seen one, Gus. Note to self, watch more John Wayne movies.
    Sid.
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  • ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2007
    Does this or this look like it?
    Ivar
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2007
    ivar wrote:
    Does this or this look like it?
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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,245 moderator
    edited May 29, 2007
    So this bell gizmo is sort of a ferris roulette wheel carousel bell chime thingie. headscratch.gif My guess is the Swiss or the Norwegians have something to do with it.
    My Smugmug
    "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
  • ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2007
    gus wrote:
    No..not at all.

    Imagine one of these (minus the rat)...but chest high & the bells sit around the outside & a crank handle goes through the middle so you can operate the bells.
    Ah, okay, now I know what you mean, but I have no idea of a specific name, I'm sorry.
    Ivar
    www.ivarborst.nl & smugmug
  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,245 moderator
    edited May 29, 2007
    Rumor had it that in 1919 or 1920, the famed electrical genius, inventor and scientist Nikola Tesla was secretly working on a vandagraph generated acoustic ice cream maker that was to be ultimately self powered. The earlier proof-of-concept test units might have been hand cranked or water powered.

    Gus, might it be possible you have one of these? If so, I'd bet it would be of interest to history, and also quite valuable.
    My Smugmug
    "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
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