Bells may refer to:
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Bell
A bell /ˈbɛl/ () is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck vibrates in a single strong strike tone, with its sides forming an efficient resonator. The strike may be m ...
, a musical instrument
Arts and entertainment
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''Bells'' (album), by Albert Ayler, 1965
* "Bells", a song by Fred Wesley and Horny Horns from the 1994 album ''
The Final Blow''
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"Bells" (''Blackadder''), a 1986 TV episode
* "Bells", a 2011
episode of ''New Girl''
* ''
Murder by Phone'', or ''Bells'', a 1982 Canadian-American film
Business and brands
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Bell's Brewery, an American craft brewing company
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Bell's whisky, a blended whisky
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Bells Stores, a defunct English convenience store chain
Places
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Bells, North Carolina, U.S., an unincorporated community
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Bells, Tennessee, U.S., a city
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Bells, Texas, U.S., a city
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Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia, a locality
Other uses
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Bells (suit), a playing card suit
* "Bells", nickname of former professional basketball player
Joe Colone (1924–2009)
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Bell's theorem
Bell's theorem is a term encompassing a number of closely related results in physics, all of which determine that quantum mechanics is incompatible with local hidden-variable theories, given some basic assumptions about the nature of measuremen ...
, in physics, created by Irish physicist John Stewart Bell
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Bellingham Bells, an American baseball team
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Ship's bells, used for timekeeping
* The Bells of 1961, a
meteorite fall
A meteorite fall, also called an observed fall, is a meteorite collected after its fall from outer space, that was also observed by people or automated devices. Any other meteorite is called a "meteorite find, find". There are more than 1,300 d ...
in Texas, United States
* "Bells", a fictional currency in game ''
Animal Crossing
is a social simulation video game series developed and published by Nintendo. It was created by Katsuya Eguchi and Hisashi Nogami. The player character is a human who lives in a village inhabited by various anthropomorphic animals and can ...
''
See also
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The Bells (disambiguation)
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Bel (disambiguation)
Bel can mean:
Mythology
* Belenus or Bel, a Celtic deity
* Bel (mythology), a title (meaning "lord" or "master") for various gods in Babylonian religion
People
* Bel (name)
* Annabel Linquist, known as Bel, American artist, musician, and entre ...
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Belis (disambiguation)
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Bell (disambiguation)
A bell is a percussion instrument, usually cup-shaped.
Bell may also refer to:
Sound and music
* Bell (wind instrument), a part of a wind instrument
* Bell cymbal, a type of cymbal, tending to be thick and uniformly so, and small
* Bell effe ...
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Bell (surname)
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Bell House (disambiguation)
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Belle (disambiguation)
Belle may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Belle (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
* Belle (surname), a list of people
* Southern belle, a stock character representing a young woman of the American South's upp ...
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The Bell (disambiguation)
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Carillon
A carillon ( , ) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a musical keyboard, keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells. The bells are Bellfounding, cast in Bell metal, bronze, hung in fixed suspension, and Musical tuning, tu ...
, a musical instrument
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Glockenspiel
The glockenspiel ( ; or , : bells and : play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a Musical keyboard, keyboard layout. This makes the glockenspiel a type of metallophone, similar to the v ...
, a musical instrument
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Tubular bells
Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the Percussion instrument, percussion family. Their sound resembles that of church bells, carillons, or a bell tower; the original tubular bells were made to duplicate the soun ...
, a musical instrument also known as chimes
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Paul Revere
Paul Revere (; December 21, 1734 O.S. (January 1, 1735 N.S.)May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, military officer and industrialist who played a major role during the opening months of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, ...
, 18th century bell caster
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