The church is promoting a mini-festival of classes, ringing performances and private lessons. The meeting is a sign of Trinity's rapid arrival as a beacon of bell towers.
Three years ago it installed a set of 12 bells, making it the only church in the nation with that many. Gregory F. Russell is Trinity's new ringing master and steeple keeper and a systems engineer at I.B.M.
Change ringing also tends to attract the mathematically inclined, lawyers, lovers of patterns and codes and, perhaps unsurprisingly, former rowers. the skill requires physical endurance, the ability to concentrate and a strong sense of rhythm.
The art is dominated by Anglican and Episcopal churches in the English speaking world. Westminister Abbey (10 bells) and St. Pauls Cathedral (12 bells) in London have the most renowned bells and ringing traditions.
Danielle Morse a 29 year old meteorologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, began ringing in the ninth grade. She rings at the Old North Church in Boston, where Paul Revere once rang.
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