p. 10 | BOTTLE BELLS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 28, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 22.

BOTTLE BELLS.

“If you are musical,” says the New York Recorder, “you will enjoy nothing more than a chime of bottle bells, which, while it may sound very difficult, is very easily arranged. Your apparatus will consist of two chairs, two long poles or sticks, and eighteen bottles. The chairs must be placed the length of the stick apart, back to back; upon each stick place nine bottles suspended by a string tied about the neck, with a loop big enough to slip over the stick. Place one stick with each end resting on the seat of the chair, and the other resting on the top of the back. For a hammer almost any stick will do to beat with. For quick tunes two sticks should be used. If the bottles are all the same shape and size, they can be tuned to produce all the notes of the scale by pouring water into them. The more water the lower the note; or differently shaped bottles can be used to fill the places when the correct note can not be produced. It is not possible to tell just how much water to use; for it varies with the thickness of the glass. You may have as many bottles as you like, and there may be two players, one on each side.”