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characteristic ‘1 ”—‘‘ riillillulli.”. One often comes 
across the expression, ‘‘ Bent hollow bell,” but bell tours 
are not bent, for between the syllables given above there 
are tiny, but distinct, intervals which are a characteristic 
of these tours. 
What, on the other hand, can be bent? The reply 
is, only a cohesive structure. One can bend a cane, but 
one cannot speak so of a chain. Rolling tours may bend, 
but not bell tours. As a matter of fact, however, when 
we have falling or rising hollow bell we get bending, 
curving tone effects; these are transitions with a roll. 
Of all the tours hollow bell suffers the least from 
faulty variation; it is not an exceptional work of art, and 
is to be found in most strains. One fault to avoid is 
nasal hollow bell; its ground tones are “a” and “ ee,”’ 
with the beak open. 
GOOD AND BAD SCHOCKEL 
Schockel is brother to Hollow Bell, and is often 
dubbed Hollow Schockel, but this is just as superfluous 
as calling coal black. I should define Schockel as deep 
tones rocking, waving, swinging, and shaking with the 
rhythm of a bell. The ground notes are “t,” “o,” 
“ou,” and the consonants are ‘“‘1” or “h”— lullul,” 
‘‘ hoho,”’ “‘ houhou.”’ 
Schockel, in conjunction with deep, hollow roll, now 
rising, now falling, is a prime tour when clear and pure 
and well defined. There is something about this tour 
which gives it its value and ennobles it as one of the 
masterpieces in song; it is its sympathetic, melancholy 
softness. There is a mysterious tragic note running 
through it. 
