The ringing of Church bells is, I should hasten to add only considered to be noise by the people who are complaining about the ringing of Church bells. Personally, I prefer the tolling of a large solitary bell and find this much more appealing. Our parish priest gets exercise pulling the bell rope.

In most cases of neighbors complaining about noise from church bells et c., this problem could be solved by the houses of the neighbors having sufficient proper accoustic insulation. This might cost some money. Another solution would be to have virtual bell ringing from the church that can only be accessed on the Internet.

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