Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong Part 2

Posted on June 16, 2009
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Repost from The Opulent Opossum Blog

Link to blog post: http://opulentopossum.blogspot.com/2009/06/bong-bong-bong-bong-bong-bong-bong-part.html

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At times it seems endless; just when one hymn ends, and you think the ordeal is over, another one whirrs into gear.

Here’s where I have problems with it: they do songs that would never have been played on normal (manually operated) bells, because they’re hymn tunes (not traditional bell chime tunes) with chords and diatonic and even chromatic tones or accidentals, and the songs involve many notes and chords in succession. To play these on traditional bells, you’d need dozens of differently keyed bells (like a handbell choir—and don’t get me started on them). And perhaps worst, with the sustain of the chime notes, the various tones run together and create dissonance. To my ear, anyway.

Imagine if a piano player kept the sustain pedal depressed through a whole song: Tonal mush.
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