Bell Traditional Cache

This cache is one of a number of music instrument related caches placed on the southern section of the R540 road in Gauteng province, South Africa. Go and enjoy a day in the country!

A bell is a simple idiophone percussion instrument. Although bells come in many forms, most are made of metal cast in the shape of a hollow cup whose size form a resonator which vibrates in a single tone upon being struck. The strike may be made by a “clapper” or “uvula” suspended within the bell, by a separate mallet or hammer, or – in small bells - by a small loose sphere enclosed within the body of the bell.

Historically, bells were associated with religious rituals and before mass communication were widely used to call communities together.

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