Ringing for "Habemus Papam"!
  • RMSawicki
    Posts: 130
    As parochial carillon-master I've been well aware, for months, that I will soon have to decide what library entry I should employ when the inevitable "Habemus Papam" comes down from on high. Our unit has a variety of change-ring options, two versions of the Te Deum (simple monophonic and solemn "harmonic"), and several different general peals (in different keys/tonics), one of which I already use regularly for the ante-Missam "Sequere Omnes".
    I think I'm leaning toward using Grandsires triple - they are a familiar "festive" or celebratory pattern in English churches and cathedrals. I'd love to find exactly what pattern is used at St. Peter's Vatican City and use that...IF we've got in the memory bank.
    ;-)

    Gaudete in Domino Semper!
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  • Liam
    Posts: 5,257
    I don't think St Peter's uses any change ringing pattern. It has a peal of six bells, the largest of which is the famed Il Campanone that is rung on special occasions, and the ringing was electrified in 1931 (it took four men just to ring Il Campanone manually).

    https://youtu.be/pB9hQT1wXoo?feature=shared&t=130

    Specs of the bells: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter's_Basilica#Bells
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