Talk:Bell (instrument)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Musical Instruments, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Musical Instruments articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on the quality scale.
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the importance scale.

This article is part of WikiProject Percussion, a group of Wikipedians interested in systematically organizing all the information in Wikipedia related to percussion. This project's focus is to centralize the efforts of many Wikipedians to make Wikipedia the best free resource when it comes to information about the subject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

Start

This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale.

Something is wrong. When I look at the edit history I see only my contribution. I didn't start the article. Rmhermen 15:46, Jun 30, 2004 (UTC)

Now the history is back -after a subsequent edit by Vampwillow. Not sure if this is a bug. Rmhermen 15:53, Jun 30, 2004 (UTC)

I've noticed this too over the last few days (including on articles I created!) but the history seems to reappear eventually. Nice job of re-editing btw ;-) --VampWillow 16:19, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] So, what makes a bell a bell?

The description of bells seems over-simplistic - "usually an open-ended hollow drum which resonates upon being struck" So is a cymbal a bell? Or a gong/tam-tam? What about jingles aka pellet bells? It would be my opinion that all three of those are not bells, although many would argue that the pellet bells are bells. Perhaps the def should read - an open-ended hollow or spherical drum (I don't care for that term - perhaps cup?) which resonates on being struck. I think it would be nice, also, to have a history section as well. After all, bells are among the oldest of instruments. Brad, 21 Apr 2007

www.Runescap[e.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.99.135.2 (talk) 15:41, 18 March 2008 (UTC)