Tips & Tools
Selections from “Beginning Busy Ringers”
With the school year rapidly approaching, here are a couple of selections from Kirtsy Mitchell’s book Beginning Busy Ringers. “Solo Time” helps to teach ringers how to know when their notes are part of the melody and should be brought out more. “Lazy Day” help students to practice when to ring and when to damp.
With the school year rapidly approaching, here are a couple of selections from Kirtsy Mitchell’s book Beginning Busy Ringers. “Solo Time” helps to teach ringers how to know when their notes are part of the melody and should be brought out more. “Lazy Day” help students to practice when to ring and when to damp.
Handbell Musicians Roundtable
The Person Who Influenced Me Most
We encouraged some fellow musicians to think about someone who has had an impact on their path as a handbell musician: a conductor, a teacher, a fellow ringer, or any person who has somehow inspired them. They could be someone considered a giant in the handbell world, or someone who has quietly offered something that [...]
We encouraged some fellow musicians to think about someone who has had an impact on their path as a handbell musician: a conductor, a teacher, a fellow ringer, or any person who has somehow inspired them. They could be someone considered a giant in the handbell world, or someone who has quietly offered something that [...]
Feature
Bringing Music to Those Who Can’t Hear It
Area 5 Chime Grant aids school for hearing impaired
In November 2015, Epiphany United Methodist Church, a suburban church outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, began a partnership with Ohio Valley Voices, a regional school for the severely hearing impaired, to bring formal musical instruction to their curriculum. A team of teachers utilized handchimes that were provided through an Area 5 chime grant to help teach [...]
Handbells in Education
Festivals with “Class”
Designing the perfect event for a school-based handbell ensemble
Picture the perfect event for your school-based ringing group: A mid-week school day in the Spring full of focused ringing, outdoor games, good food and fellowship perhaps?
Community Connections
Our Future in the Present
Recruitng younger ringers
Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to be at the first ever College Ring-In; the first national event designed specifically for college-aged handbell musicians. Leading up to the Ring-In, I was very excited and eager to see how the event turned out because, as so many of us working on the event said, these [...]
Handbells in Worship
Oh, the Drama!
Handbells and the drama of the worship service
A worship service contains many of the aspects of a drama—participants, a story with prose, poetry, and music that enhance the story and provide emotional content. Handbells can be used in a variety of ways to add to the beauty and drama of the service. Most of the ways listed in this article require very [...]
Membership Matters
Re-
As i considered the topic for this issue, an expanding list of words beginning with the prefix re, meaning again, anew, once more, kept running through my mind. Consider how many of these apply to you as a handbell musician this summer.
As i considered the topic for this issue, an expanding list of words beginning with the prefix re, meaning again, anew, once more, kept running through my mind. Consider how many of these apply to you as a handbell musician this summer.
Executive Notes
You Are IN Because You rINg
Recently, the national board appointed a Development Advisory Team to assist them with fundraising for the organization. Past-president John Pfeiffer chairs the committee, which includes Marlene Anderson, Michael Glasgow, Beth Judd, Kermit Junkert, Linda Krantz, Reiff Lorenz and Linda McKechnie, along with Jessica Westgard Larson as board liaison. The team has been meeting regularly for [...]
Recently, the national board appointed a Development Advisory Team to assist them with fundraising for the organization. Past-president John Pfeiffer chairs the committee, which includes Marlene Anderson, Michael Glasgow, Beth Judd, Kermit Junkert, Linda Krantz, Reiff Lorenz and Linda McKechnie, along with Jessica Westgard Larson as board liaison. The team has been meeting regularly for [...]
Board Messages
Giving Back with Back to Bells
In the last issue of Overtones, Jennifer Vangolen shared with readers the amazing energy the national board has to “dream the fantastic while sustaining the reality.” Two of the realities we face over and over again are the need to reverse declining membership numbers and provide more benefits and opportunities to all handbell musicians, while [...]
In the last issue of Overtones, Jennifer Vangolen shared with readers the amazing energy the national board has to “dream the fantastic while sustaining the reality.” Two of the realities we face over and over again are the need to reverse declining membership numbers and provide more benefits and opportunities to all handbell musicians, while [...]
Chiming In
We Owe It to Each Other
Music and entertainment have been an important part of my life for as long as I can remember. From the time when I was still in school and I played Christopher Columbus and received “fan mail” from an elementary school girl, I knew the special feeling of speaking to someone with your art.
Music and entertainment have been an important part of my life for as long as I can remember. From the time when I was still in school and I played Christopher Columbus and received “fan mail” from an elementary school girl, I knew the special feeling of speaking to someone with your art.
From the President's Pen
Intersecting Memories: Written on Memorial Day, 2016
In early 2012, executive director Jenny Cauhorn shared the news of a wonderful opportunity for our summer seminar participants to ring the national anthem at a Cincinnati Reds baseball game. I was pretty excited about this because I love baseball, and I had never participated in anything like this.
In early 2012, executive director Jenny Cauhorn shared the news of a wonderful opportunity for our summer seminar participants to ring the national anthem at a Cincinnati Reds baseball game. I was pretty excited about this because I love baseball, and I had never participated in anything like this.
