Shortages of volunteers at the kettles have forced the Salvation Army to pay some bell-ringers.
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During the January carnival period, During the January carnival period, bell ringers march through the villages that dot the Kastav region in north-west Croatia.
At the end of the carnival, the ringers proceed through their own village, collecting rubbish at each house and burning it out front, involving everyone present in the ceremony.
And they have been broken continuously since the first intercollegiate sporting event in the 1840s when Harvard allegedly used ringers against Yale in a boat race, sponsored by a railroad company.
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When they reach a village, the bell ringers form concentric circles in the town square, ringing fiercely until the residents offer them food and a chance to rest before they continue their journey.
Numbers vary from region to region, Seiler said, but in the Atlanta area overall, more than half of bell-ringers are volunteers, and most paid kettle attendants work during weekdays when fewer volunteers are available.
He and seven volunteer bell ringers started rehearsals by playing the melody on hand-bells before progressing to the "world famous" Anglican bells, which are the highest and heaviest ringing peal bells in the world.
Clothed in sheepskin throws with bells around their waists and sporting distinctive hats embellished with sprigs of evergreen, two to more than thirty ringers swagger in groups behind a guide carrying a small evergreen tree.
With variations distinctive to each village, the annual carnival bell ringers' pageant is a way to strengthen bonds within the community and a valuable means of renewing friendships among the towns in the region while integrating newcomers into its traditional culture.
The bell ringers were continuing a tradition that had once been central to the life of the community, and she liked to think that only a generation ago, whenever these bells had rung out over the fields and the streets, everyone had known what they were saying.
It turned out that the organizer was someone she had known in school, and though the woman seemed not to remember Eva, she had been very kind, and the other bell ringers gentle and considerate, always ready to help her out, never noticing when she got things wrong.
Because if you bring singers in - ringers in - two weeks before the performance and you haven't do two rehearsals and then they sing the performance, what happens is the rest of the chorus is still singing the same notes they always sang or they're not singing it at all.
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