When the handbell choir at St. Francis Catholic Church gets ready to play a number, it can be described as barely controlled chaos: good friends talking to and over each other, pointing out things on ...

With a flick of a handbell ringer's wrist, an ethereal tinkling floats forth. The heavenly sound produced by a handbell choir is apt to usher in a hushed reverence among listeners, whether they sit in ...

The Beatles’ “Help!” isn’t the first song you’d expect a bell choir to play, nor is a medley from “Star Wars.” But Long Island reSound is broadening the repertoire of handbell music. The community ...

Handbells, orchestras, Steinways, a shotgun and night clubs are just a few notes in the novel of a 37-year piano tuning career. Bob Downie didn’t seek out piano tuning. “It wasn’t on purpose. It ...