change ringing

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change ringing:

see bellbell,
in music, a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow metal vessel, often cup-shaped with an outward-flaring rim, damped at one end and set into vibration by a blow from a clapper within or from a hammer without.
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Firms which offer to change ringing tones to the tunes of the latest chart hits - and the display panel to show images such as football club emblems - are raking in a fortune from their slice of the calls.

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"Change ringing is quintessentially English," explains Dr John Eisel, librarian at the CCBR.

Ringing in the changes

The connection is change ringing. The mark ordering algorithm techniques of the 1960s, used to generate permutations for computer usage, are similar to an early method of change ringing known as Plain Bob.