There seems to be a revival of the art of bell ringing
It is called Campanology.
Is there any Linux software to aid bell ringers?
If not , here is your opportunity to write something.
There is a famous mystery novel centred on bell ringing
“The Nine Taylors” by Dorothy Sayers
Some say it is the greatest mystery novel ever written.
I have read it I think 3 times. It is a fascinating book.
This site is almost encyclopaedic, but no software?
@nevj :
Hi Neville, 
thanks for your post and for providing those interesting links.
My answer may be a tad bit off-topic but it´s related to ringing bells.
Ever since I´ ve been running a Linux distro (Lubuntu was my first a daily driver) I´ve been a fan of bells. To be more specific: the Big-Ben chimes from London.
To this end I fetched some recordings which were provided by the London Parliament, if I remember correctly.
As far as the quarter ones are concerned they only provided a “quarter of an hour” version.
So I used audacity to create the “half hour”, the “three quarters of an hour” and the “on the hour” chimes.
In the end I got a full set of all what´s needed to imitate Big Ben.
After that I defined the cronjobs I needed:
crontab -l
[...]
00 0-11,20-23 * * * if [ ! -f /tmp/Ruhe ]; then XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" mplayer /media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/Pausenzeichen/Big_Ben_chimes/Big-ben-chimes.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1; fi
15 * * * * if [ ! -f /tmp/Ruhe ]; then XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" mplayer /media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/Pausenzeichen/Big_Ben_chimes/Big_Ben_quarter_hour > /dev/null 2>&1; fi
30 * * * * if [ ! -f /tmp/Ruhe ]; then XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" mplayer /media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/Pausenzeichen/Big_Ben_chimes/Big_Ben_half_hour > /dev/null 2>&1; fi
45 * * * * if [ ! -f /tmp/Ruhe ]; then XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" mplayer /media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/Pausenzeichen/Big_Ben_chimes/Big_Ben_three_quarters_of_the_hour > /dev/null 2>&1; fi
00 12 * * * if [ ! -f /tmp/Ruhe ]; then XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" mplayer /media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/Pausenzeichen/Big_Ben_chimes/Big-ben_bearbeitet/Big-ben-chimes_plus12_noon.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1; fi
00 13 * * * if [ ! -f /tmp/Ruhe ]; then XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" mplayer /media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/Pausenzeichen/Big_Ben_chimes/Big-ben_bearbeitet/Big-ben-chimes_plus1.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1; fi
00 14 * * * if [ ! -f /tmp/Ruhe ]; then XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" mplayer /media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/Pausenzeichen/Big_Ben_chimes/Big-ben_bearbeitet/Big-ben-chimes_plus2.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1; fi
00 15 * * * if [ ! -f /tmp/Ruhe ]; then XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" mplayer /media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/Pausenzeichen/Big_Ben_chimes/Big-ben_bearbeitet/Big-ben-chimes_plus3.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1; fi
00 16 * * * if [ ! -f /tmp/Ruhe ]; then XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" mplayer /media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/Pausenzeichen/Big_Ben_chimes/Big-ben_bearbeitet/Big-ben-chimes_plus4.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1; fi
00 17 * * * if [ ! -f /tmp/Ruhe ]; then XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" mplayer /media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/Pausenzeichen/Big_Ben_chimes/Big-ben_bearbeitet/Big-ben-chimes_plus5.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1; fi
00 18 * * * if [ ! -f /tmp/Ruhe ]; then XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" mplayer /media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/Pausenzeichen/Big_Ben_chimes/Big-ben_bearbeitet/Big-ben-chimes_plus6.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1; fi
00 19 * * * if [ ! -f /tmp/Ruhe ]; then XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" mplayer /media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/Pausenzeichen/Big_Ben_chimes/Big-ben_bearbeitet/Big-ben-chimes_plus7.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1; fi
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I also created an on/off toggle switch so that the chimes wouldn´t disturb me when listening to radio or to any other sound file on the PC.
rosika@rosika-Lenovo-H520e ~ [0|1]> RuheToggle; and ll /tmp | grep Ruhe
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rosika rosika 0 Apr 27 15:05 Ruhe
rosika@rosika-Lenovo-H520e ~> RuheToggle; and ll /tmp | grep Ruhe
rosika@rosika-Lenovo-H520e ~ [0|1]>
… referring to the /tmp/Ruhe in the cronjobs. 
RuheToggle is an alias (or rather function in fish) with this definition:
functions RuheToggle
# Defined in /home/rosika/.config/fish/functions/RuheToggle.fish @ line 1
function RuheToggle --wraps=/media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/zu_crontab/RuheToggle.sh --description 'alias RuheToggle=/media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/zu_crontab/RuheToggle.sh'
/media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/zu_crontab/RuheToggle.sh $argv;
end
And the script in question looks like this:
cat RuheToggle.sh
#!/bin/bash
if [ -f /tmp/Ruhe ]
then
rm /tmp/Ruhe
else
touch /tmp/Ruhe
fi
This way it´s easy for me to ring the bells (or rather: have them rung) every quarter of an hour - and get the correct chimes every hour - as per default…
… and to set them to silent if I don´t want to be disturbed.
Some of you might think: I´d get annoyed by that frequent bell ringing.
Well, to me actually the opposite is the case. I need the Big Ben chimes on a regular basis. 
All the best from Rosika 
I have a setting in Android which rings the Angelus bell every day at 12.00.
Hi Neville, 
That sounds nice.
I found out that …
… some Android apps, like Universalis, allow you to set notifications or alarms for the Angelus, which can include the sound of church bells.
(form DDG´s Search Assist).
I didn´t know that.
Thanks for the info.
Many greetings from Rosika
Yes, I use Universalis.
Thank you, I did not know that.
It is a nice example of a Catholic tradition, that may have started for some obscure reason, but is continued just because people find it meaningful.
Hi Neville,
thanks for the feedback.
I just looked at f-droid´s apps.
It doesn´t seem to be available fom them.
But one can get it from other sources, like Apkpure.
I won´t do much good for me though as my phone is mostly switched off.
Many greetings from Rosika
Hi Rosika,
You could do it with cron … like you did with Big Ben.
It might clash with Big Ben.
Regards
Neville
Hi Neville,
thanks for suggesting cron.
Yes, that would be a way of achieving the task.
You mentioned:
Is that 12.00 p.m. local time (i.e. AEST in your case)?
Or is it 12.00 p.m. UTC…
… or even 12.00 p.m. European Summer Time (because of the location of Vatican/Rome)?
Cheers from Rosika
Just a question
Does tubular bells count ?
As in Mike oldfield …..
Hi Rosika,
Yes , local time.
I think it may have originally been related to the ‘Hours’
Regards
Neville
Hi Neville,
sorry for my belated reply. I wasn´t online yesterday as I was out doing some errands and quite a bit of garden work etc. .
Thank you for the clarification.
So then Agelus bell rings exactly at 12.00 p.m. no matter where you are.
Good to know.
Thanks again and many greetings from Rosika
Hi Rosika,
Yes Angelus is always said at Sext .
In modern timekeeping, 12.00 is not exactly the middle of a 12 hour day at every location
In the Middle Ages it was.
Regards
Neville
Hi Neville,
thanks for the additional info.
I also found it here:
At noon, the Angelus may be said before the Office, except from Easter Day until the Eve of Trinity Sunday, when the Regina Coeli is said instead.
Very interesting.
Cheers from Rosika
So for time keeping is the hour the first bell or the last ?
No problem at 1 o clock but at twelve ?
That takes me to the next part and ship bells, as they cross time lines … what time is it and why ships only count to 8 bells
They are like Medieval timekeeping … tied to hours of daylight, with no shift for timezones.
Bells , wherever used, have been primarily a communication device, but Campanology is like turning them into a game of combinations.