Orthodox Bells. Royalty-Free Stock Photography

Orthodox bells. The bell percussion, and a signal instrument consisting of a hollow dome (sound source) and suspended along the axis of the dome language, exciting sound when it strikes the dome. The bell can hang or be mounted on a swinging base edges of the dome upwards; depending on design sound excited swing or dome (or rather, the grounds on which it is fixed), or language. In Western Europe, often rocking the dome in Russian — the language that allows us to create very large bells (Tsar-Kolokol). Also known bell without a tongue, which hit the outside metal or wooden mallet. Bells are usually made from so-called bell of bronze, more rarely of iron, cast iron, silver, stone, terracotta and even glass.