Jake Malta left his job as chief engineer at Schulmerich, the world's biggest handbell company, in 1973. But Malta couldn't stop thinking about bells. He had a vision for a perfect bell — a bell he ...

Laine Heltebridle has been ringing handbells for 40 years, and from the first moment he learned how to play — he’s been hooked. “It’s different than other musical things that I have ever done,” ...

Handbell ringing in the US has become more popular over the past 50 years. A Handbell Musicians of America predecessor had fewer than 50 members in 1955; in 2012 HMA has roughly 7,000 registered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 45 handbell ringers from across Cape Cod will gather for the 11th Cape Cod Spring Ring on March 21. The event will be ...

Bells will be ringing during what is billed as Windsor’s largest gathering of handbell ringers. The Silver Bells handbell choir will host handbell ringers from Michigan and Ontario for a South West ...

Martha DiLorenzo wants handbell music to be heard in many more places throughout Lake County. To accomplish that mission, DiLorenzo has launched a new community handbell choir called Decibells. “We ...

With a flick of a handbell ringer's wrist, an ethereal tinkling floats forth. The heavenly sound produced by a handbell choir is apt to usher in a hushed reverence among listeners, whether they sit in ...

Unlike in America, the handbell isn’t commonly part of the UK school curriculum for music. So while most of us will have had a go playing the recorder or xylophone we won’t have had the opportunity to ...