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Bells of St. Boniface Church, Sublimity, Oregon

A manual-controlled motorized peal of three bells of St. Boniface Catholic Church in Sublimity, Oregon, for the Feast of the Assumption of Mary on 15 August. The bells were cast by Stuckstede of St. Louis around 1920 and mounted in a freestanding campanile alongside the church. The church's steeple contains a fourth bell one octave higher than the large bell, but can only be rung manually. The bells sound the pitches d', f', g', and d" (steeple-not heard in video). Since most American bellringing systems start the bells simultaneously, as does this Verdin system, pealing them in the proper start sequence (smaller to larger) requires manual control.

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