Bells@Home

Here is how I set up the program:

Although a number of people in our group do move around for differnt pieces, for this program they would have to stay on the same bells as those are ones they would have available at home.
I delivered the following to each person: Handbells, chimes, their music, a bell pad and the handbell music stand.
We have both handbells and chimes, so for the accidentals needed I gave each person the flat notes with their bells and the sharp notes with their chimes. We are luck to have both so between the two they have all the accidentals they would need for any piece. (Sometimes they might have to rehearse on bells and sometimes on chimes, depending on the key signature.)
I use Finale for my compositions, so I started to produce more arrangements that we could use to rehearse.
I have also produce recordings of some of the music we have been playing. We enjoyed "Joyance" from the last OGEHR Festival so we have keep that in our repertoire. Below you find three rehearsal recordings: "Rehearsal Speed", "Performance", "Our Speed". We were also getting ready to play for a wedding in September so I have done recordings of "Trumpet Voluntary". If you were at the last OGEHR Festival you should have the music for "Joyance" and "Trumpet Voluntary" is a reasonable common piece that many bell choirs have.
I have started to do more arrangements of hymns and other pieces so that people may keep up their skills.
Use the records and play along. As we all know rehearsing handbells at home is rather difficult as you don't have your neighbours to work with, but the recordings do provide something to work with.
I will try to keep add new material to these pages for my own group and for anyone else who follows this project.

Handbell Arrangement & Compositions

Rehearsal Pieces

Note: Playing the sound files seems to work quite easily on desktop computers and iPads. On phones only a black box appears below the music. Clicking on the box and downloading the audio file appears to work the best.