A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Firing

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From volume 1 of the work.

1504376A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — FiringGeorge GroveC. A. W. Troyte

FIRING is pulling all the bells in a tower at once, so as to make them strike together. It is practised in England on specially joyful or mournful occasions—on the latter with the bells muffled.

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