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- noun Plural form of
handbell .
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Examples
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Any other writer who plays handbells is ok in my book! by
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So, ringing handbells is what makes me happy for today.
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So, ringing handbells is what makes me happy for today.
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Such are the creative issues that inspire Mr. Shirey, who will celebrate his 44th birthday onstage Saturday at Joe's Pub, demonstrating the inherent lyrical allure of such items as the "industrial flute," the enigmatic "Sxipenspiel," a stack of "mutant harmonicas" fed into a pitch-shifting device that makes a "fat, greasy, lumbering pipe-organ sound," a guitar doctored with paper clips and a microphone, and a set of desktop handbells.
A Mad Scientist of Musical Machinery Steve Dollar 2011
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I recently found myself in Fortnum & Mason with an hour to kill and, en route to the department selling royal wedding commemorative handbells and 37 kinds of bittermints, wandered into a huge room filled almost entirely with soap.
Beauty: Soap 2011
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Strangely, it is too for husband and wife duo Gay and Alan, who play the Titanic theme on the handbells.
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Carol Ringers and Peace Ringers, a program of religious and popular holiday music using traditional handbells. 6 p.m., Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, 2700 F St. NW.
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Nearly every performance had a gimmick: The foursome played "What to Do" entirely on handbells, which must have taken a long time to learn.
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His latest recording is World Glass, a delight which showcases all the glass instruments in his Crystal Concert, including the glass armonica, the glass violin, the crystal handbells, the cristal Baschet, and the glass bowed psaltery.
Celestial Music of the Spheres: Dean Shostak Plays Glass Instruments 2009
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Accessible and easy to learn in 2-part mixed voicing, it features handbells and optional children's descant.
Children And Dreams 2009
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