My Ringers do stuff, too!

Marsha Dyslin rings in The Choir of Bells, my bell choir from Sunnyale Presbyterian Church. Her daughter Sara has been ringing chimes with the church's LOGOS program & has been subbing with the bell choir, too. (We hope she'll be able to join the group next year!)

On Tuesday, Marsha & Sara did a presentation about handbells at Sara's school! In Marsha's own words:

The day is set up with 4 classes of 20 coming to your room for 30 minutes each.

As the students came in the room we had your cd, Chimera, playing a few selections. We asked the kids to tell us what instruments they heard. They all got handbells since they were standing in front of a table of handbells and knew they were coming to a demonstration about handbells. We were pretty impressed when one of them said harp, and then they did pretty good with piano, organ and even cello. Then we asked them how many were playing the handbells they heard on the selections. Hands shot up, 100? lower, 50? lower, 20? lower, 10?, 5?, 3? And when they finally got to ONE, they were pretty amazed.

Sara and I played a short duet, Harry Potter movie theme (13 bells), showed Jason's "Humility" You tube video , and then had the kids play nursery rhymes, or familiar songs on the hand chimes. We had written out the note letters on a sheet, so I pointed to the sheet, said the number while Sara pointed to the right line of kids to play their note.

30 minutes was over really fast, and 4 sets of 20 kids (1st - 3rd graders) got a fun introduction to handbells and chimes.

Doesn't that sound like fun??

Here's a pic of Marsha & Sara!