Text: A set of bells so aranged as to be played by hand or by machinery. The word has by some authors been connected with clarine (Fr.), a little bell, which is probably connected with clarisonus (Lat.); The can be no doubt as to the antiquity of thus using small bells. They were probably graduated in size so as to produce a diatonic scale, and were called a Tintinnabulum.

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