Traditional bell ringing under threat as churches turn to computerised chimes in worrying move for fans

Traditional bell ringing under threat as churches turn to computerised chimes in worrying move for fans. CHURCHES are turning to computerised chimes in a move that threatens the end of traditional bell-ringing. St Sampson’s in South Hill, Cornwall, is the latest to abandon the traditional rope and clappers to ring peels for services, weddings and funerals. Its 17th-century bells were deemed to be too delicate to be struck by hand so…