What's new at the Ringem.org web site

November 9, 2006

Omaha Metro Community Handbell Choirs, obviously from Omaha Nebraska, join up

November 9, 2006

"The Dorothy Shaw Bell Choir", of Fort Worth TX, joins the list

May 13, 2006

Emmanubells, from Ontario Canada, becomes our first Canadian group link

May 9, 2006

Added the Capital Ringers, of Dover Delaware. We now have three Capital named groups here...

January 4, 2006

The San Diego Harmony Ringers, of San Diego, CA join the list

January 1, 2006

Added the Blue Ridge Ringers, of Henderson County North Carolina

December 21, 2005

Added Tapestry, of Portsmouth, VA

October 8, 2005

Added the Queen City Ringers, of Charlotte, NC

June 4, 2005

Added the link for Capital Carillon, in Washington DC

May 24, 2005

A new link for the High Plains Ringers, of Colorado

May 8, 2005

Added the link for the Circle City Ringers

April 20, 2005

We now have a link for Orquestra de Sinos do UNASP, de São Paulo.

March 14, 2005

Added the Purdue Bells, or Purdue University.

February 19, 2005

Added a link for the Alberta Guild of English Handbell Ringers.

December 2, 2004

Added Chicago Bronze to the web site list.

June 10, 2003

Now that I'm back from Tim and Karin's wedding (what a joyous event!), I've added the James River Ringers web site to the list.

June 1, 2003

Added a link for the Columbia Handbell Ensemble.

May 17, 2003

Added a link to the Virginia Handbell Consort.

March 14, 2003

A kind web browser gave me a pointer to Taylor Bells, so they are added to the manufacturers link.

March 6, 2003

Added Bells In Motion, of Springfield IL to the groups page.

January 29, 2003

Changed the link for WestCoast Handbell Supply to point to their web page.

January 25, 2003

Embellishments, in Birmingham AL asked for a link.

And the River Bend Bells in MN asked for one too.

January 17, 2003

Brought the Renaissance Ringers into the fold.

January 2, 2003

Linked in a new archive of the digest version of Handbell-L. Now people who read in digest mode have a place to pick up lost digests.

December 7, 2002

Added a link for the Houston Bronze Ensemble, Inc.

November 24, 2002

The Handbell-L archiver is archiving again!

November 8, 2002

Very belatedly changed the title of this web page. sigh. I hadn't noticed it before now.

November 8, 2002

Added a link for the Detroit Handbell Ensemble.

November 8, 2002

Updated the link to The University Music House vendor to include their web link.

October 11, 2002

Added a link to the Sonoran Bells, of Tucson.

October 9, 2002

Area's V and XII are properly linked in from the area's link. I don't intend to announce as new each individual group's links being updated (although I will announce new groups), but I want to announce when an area gets updated.

October 8, 2002

Added Cast of Bronze, from Dallas, to the groups page.

October 7, 2002

Nothing anything more significant than GETTING THE SITE BACK ON LINE!

September 10, 2000

Added Joyful Sound, Inc to the groups page.

August 11, 2000

Nothing much has changed lately... Oh yeah, one little thing... THE DOMAIN NAME! :-) We're now www.ringem.org.

August 3, 2000

I was (again) pointed to the Whitechapel pages address. They're now linked in to the manufacturers page.

August 1, 2000

www.agehr.org now points to the Guild hosted pages. This is a period of major transition. But things here will stay here.

July 17, 2000

Linked in Bells of the Lake>, from the Twin Cities area, MN.

July 15, 2000

Improved membership rates to match current guild rates.

Removed out of date links from groups page to HTML instructions.

June 1, 2000

A link is now in place for the Univeristy Ringers, of Oklahoma Baptist University.

March 4, 2000

Added a link to the Ring of Fire, from the Tualiatin Valley Junior Academy in Hollsboro, OR.

January 28, 2000

Whoo Hoo! Two links in two days (well, actually both in one day, depending on what you think a day is). The Gateway Ringers of St. Louis are now linked in.

January 27, 2000

Added a link for the Seattle Bell Ensemble to the groups page.

January 6, 2000

Found and fixed a Y2K bug in MHonArc. It was putting the year 100 in the index page for archived mailing lists. While this is fixed in subsequent releases of the MHonArc software, I just figured out what was wrong in the current software and corrected it (7 bytes of typing :-).

October 9, 1999

Created a link for Gloves Handbell, of Hong Kong.

June 11, 1999

Added the Allegro Handbell Choir, of Hinsdale IL.

May 29, 1999

Alfred Publishing now has a web site.

May 17, 1999

Added Laruie Brasile's group, the Trinity Lutheran Church handbell choir, of Papillion Nebraska.

May 1, 1999

Added the Evensong Handbell Ringers to the groups page.

April 13, 1999

Mark Bond's company "The Bellman" has joined the HIC.

April 10, 1999

The Blacon Handbell Ringers of Chester, in the UK, now have a link.

March 6, 1999

The Rosary High School Handbell Choir joins the list.

March 2, 1999

Set up the link for the Agape Ringers (who are now alphabetically first in the list) on the groups page.

February 25, 1999

Added the Gold Coast Ringers, the Pyramind Ringers, and St. Olaf College to the groups page.

February 15, 1999

At their request, added a FAX number and e-mail contact for Schulmerich on the HIC page.

January 29, 1999

Corrected Sassafras Publishing URL... ooops.

January 28, 1999

Added Sassafras Publishing to the HIC roster.

January 26, 1999

Noted that the search engine is currently off-line, and changed the home page to remove references to Vigra and Visicom. I still need to expunge them fully at a later date.

Future monthly archives should point e-mail to rgs@rgs.com as well now.

January 22, 1999

Changed the link for Jeffers from an internal link to their external web pages.

Added Christine Anderson, as "Voices in Bronze" to the groups page. She's not a very big group, but we don't currently have a soloists page so that will have to do :-).

January 15, 1999

Updated the list of e-mail contacts.

Added a link for Opus Handbell Ensemble, of Modesto California.

Also added a link for the Trinity United Presbyterian Handbell Choir.

December 29, 1998

The Handbell Ringers of Great Britain (the HRGB) now have a web site. It now also has a link from here.

December 21, 1998

Followed Kim's wonderings, and changed Capital City Community's URL.

December 20, 1998

Changed the University of Colorado link to a locally hosted one. As spotty as this sight has been this year, we're doing better then CU :-)

Changed the link for Malmark to point to their web site.

December 12, 1998

Changed the phone number and add en e-mail link for one of our HIC members, but didn't change the URL becuase I don't know what it is yet.

December 10, 1998

Re-added the Bay Bells link. It's good to be bak on-line!.

September 24, 1998

Made a link to our friends at Holy Cross Lutheran, in St. Loius, Mo.

September 14, 1998

Fixed a missing quote problem in the list of e-mail contacts page. The Area IV link was missing a quote, causing the area V rep to be listed there.

Created a link for the Bells of the Cascades, in Portland Oregon.

August 9, 1998

Added a link to The Puerto Rico Handbell Choir.

July 31, 1998

While trolling through old e-mail, I found that Schulmerich now has their own web page. They are (to my knowledge) the first handbell manufacturer to do so. They're linked in now, although I've kept a link to the old manuals around for the time being. That will eventually go away, since the manuals on the Schulmerich site include prices (a VERY good thing!).

July 21, 1998

A new link for the Klipnocky Klangers, of Oneonta, New York.

July 19, 1998

Ooops! I'd missed a request in my e-mail to have area I's page linked in. Sorry! That's been fixed now. Now all we need is areas IV, VI, X, XI, and XIII. If one of you folks has a web page that I've missed, please let me know about it.

July 17, 1998

After some behind the scenes support, area VII is now linked in.

July 16, 1998

Added a link for our friends from down south, the Handbell Society of Australasia.

July 14, 1998

Moved MACH and the Magic of Bronze around alphabetically. They had been in the wrong order on the groups page.

Linked in the Jubilee Ringers, of Salem Lutheran Church, in West St. Paul MN.

May 17, 1998

Added a link on the HIC page to Peery Products Company.

May 4, 1998

Create a link to the Whitechapel home page.

April 4, 1998

In a rather tardy fashion (the request came in March 18th), I've added the Dunblane Cathedral Handbell Ringers to the groups page.

March 11, 1998

Changed the Desert Bells link to point to their new domain.

March 3, 1998

Added four new e-mail contacts to the e-mail contact page.

February 12, 1998

Our first Korean group, the Joy Handbell Ensemble, gets a link from the groups page.

February 10, 1998

New link for AGEHR Area II added in.

February 9, 1998

Added a guild link for the OGEHR (Ontario, CA).

Linked in the new web page Handbells, Etc. And, I renamed Susam to Susan on their HIC listing.

Added a link to Bells of Faith, from The Faith United Church of Christ, in Cincinnati, OH.

February 6, 1998

After being down for since the 15th, the web server is finally restored. Failure was caused by a bad cable, which took both a disk drive and the SCSI controller down.

January 11, 1998

By suggestion, I've added a link to the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA).

January 9, 1998

Area IX (Texas and Oklahoma) now has its own home page.

January 8, 1998

The AGEHR membership form has been updated to reflect the new rates, and a new membership class (international subscription) has been added for our overseas friends.

January 6, 1998

Added a link to the web page for First United Presbeterian in Dale City, VA.

December 27, 1997

Linked in "Bells' Angels of Saint Andrews' on the groups page.

New link on the "other guilds" page (misc/links.html) to the 8th Internional Symposium, in Japan. I can't think of a better place to put the link.

December 4, 1997

Added MACH (cool name!) of Madison, WI to the groups page.

November 10, 1997

Now there's a link to the Ringers of Bryn Mawr PA.

November 6, 1997

Added a link to Manzano Royal Bronze, of Albuquerque NM.

October 11, 1997

Added a link to another locally hosted group, the Houston Festival Ringers.

I've *finally* moved the web pages from the system disk on linus (the machine that actually hosts the web pages) to one of the guild provided disks. Up to this point, only the mailing list, FTP area, and hosted websites were using the guild disks. Now the archives have been moved there. Hopefully this has been done in a transparent fashion. There was a change to the web pages while I was moving them, but I think I handled it OK.

October 7, 1997

Added a link to Malecki Music, Inc.

September 25, 1997

With a request from a second Guild for a link, I've moved NAGCR off the home page into a new links page. Welcome the BCGEHR to the web.

September 23, 1997

Cantabile Press has been renamed Genisis Press, and is sold through Hope Publishing now, so I've changed the HIC page accordingly (I think).

September 16, 1997

Another new publisher joins the Guild! Bronze:fx.

September 2, 1997

We welcome Soundforth Music to the HIC and publisher page.

August 21, 1997

Added a new HIC member to the HIC list and retailer page, Emerson Enterprises.

July 17, 1997

added "Classical Bells" to the groups web page.

June 7, 1997

Added a link to Shattinger Music Co., based on a request from back on May 24th (can you tell I'm still way behind on my e-mail?).

June 6, 1997

Added the Rooke Chapel Ringers, of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA.

June 4, 1997

Linked in Morningstar Music Publishers web page to the publishers page and to the HIC page.

May 25, 1997

Added the Holy Family Ringers, of Nazareth, PA to the groups page.

May 22, 1997

I've been away on business, so I'm just now adding the Marlin Handbell Ringers web page, even though they sent me mail on the 10th of May.

April 28, 1997

We have our first name space collision on the groups page, with "Strikepoint", from Duluth, edgeing out "Strikepoint of Texas, Inc." alphabetically.

April 23, 1997

The Marching Handbell Choir is now linked up.

April 21, 1997

Created a link to VOICES Choeur International, of Paris, France.

April 16, 1997

Changed the Raleigh Ringers webpage link to point to rr.org.

April 15, 1997

Added Baron Ringers web page.

April 11, 1997

Added "The Magic of Bronze" group page.

March 26, 1997

There's now a link to the AGEHR's Director Seminar information page.

Februaru 18, 1997

Added the link in for the new Clapper Cafe home page.

February 3, 1997

Moved the Rhapsody Ringers link from KSU to hear at the agehr site. They're locally hosted now.

January 24, 1997

Added the CHIME page to the agehr area of the net. While in there, the agehr page was rearrainged to try and help people navigate better.

January 15, 1997

Due to numerous complaints about Campanile's web link being broken, I've pointed the link to their partially hosted stuff here at the AGEHR site. Now it's there stuff that's broken, and not mine. It'll get fixed someday soon I hope.

January 14, 1997

Happy New Year... A new link and listing on the HIC and Retailers page for Sound Innovation.

December 16, 1996

New link (long outstanding) for Northwest Bell Ensemble

December 12, 1996

Added link for Gold Coast Music Company to the vendors and HIC page

December 6, 1996

Another AGEHR hosted bell group, the Golden Bells of Atlanta, joins the group page.

December 2, 1996

Corrected spelling for WestCoast Handbell Supply, and added the FAX and toll free number for them.

December 1, 1996

Added links for the Chaparral Ringers, the Desert Ringers, the Scottsdale Handbell Ensemble, and the Grande Ringers.

*Everybody* gets a link. All vendors and publishers now have a clickable link. If the company doesn't have their own web page, then the link takes you to the appropriate place in the HIC roster.

November 28 (turkey day), 1996

Added a link to The Wesley Bell Ringers, of Christ United Methodist in Salt Lake City

November 25, 1996

There's now a link to Stephanie Wiltse's clip art page

November 21, 1996

Add Gold Coast Music Co to the HIC page and to the vendor's page

November 18. 1996

The Mystery Bell Ringer page is now maintained by Tim McDonough, via the new FTP facility. Thank you very much Tim for helping out with the web pages!

November 12, 1996

A new link for the groups page for the Capital City Community Ringers, of Lansing, MI

And a link for the Rhapsody Ringers, in Manhattan, KS

November 10, 1996

Area XII now has a web page

November 5, 1996

The Embellish home page is now directly supported via FTP drop box. Phrased another, ftp now works as a way for people who want to have their pages hosted at the AGEHR web machine to do updates.

October 29, 1996

Link in place for Norm Heitz Handbell Music.

Added a link the the Dallas Handbell Ensemble.

October 21, 1996

New link under the publishers page for Bronze Handbell Publishers.

October 18, 1996

Added the much anticipated search engine to the web page. Now anything ever mentioned on the web or mailing lists can be looked up.

July 30, 1996

The much awaited Handbell-L Conference Pin page is now on-line. Now, on the to tremendous backlog of group pages that need to be added.

July 18, 1996

Finally FINALLY added two home pages long ago submitted to the web site, for area III and area V. Let's try to get all 12 areas to have home pages!

July 5, 1996

The Mystery Ringer hall of fame page is added to the site

June 27, 1996

Thanks to Tim McDonough, the Mystery Bell Ringer page is BACK! We REALLY need those pictures of y'all. So send 'em on in!

May 25, 1996

A new entry in the HIC roster for Handbells, Etc.

May 15, 1996

Added the link to Strikepoint of Texas, Inc

May 3, 1996

Added the long awaited link to Campanile

April 23, 1996

We now have a link for High Meadow Music Publishing's new page

April 13, 1996

Put in new home page and new music for Green Rose Press

Added a link for the Theodore Presser Co

March 3, 1996

Added a link for the Harter Memorial Handbell Choir to the groups page

Added a link for Heavensound to the groups page

February 18, 1996

Pointed a link to our history, the NAGCR (with possibly a harder acronym to pronounce than our own)

Moved all mailing list information to the archives page, in an effort to neaten up the home page

Added a link to our web page benifactor, Visicom Laboritories Inc.

February 17, 1996

Added the long awaited Whitechapel Bell Foundry maintenance page

Added our first AGEHR web site hosted bell group - Embellish, of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

February 15, 1996

Added The Jubilate Ringers, in Fairview Heights, IL.

February 9, 1996

Added Valparaiso University Handbell Choir to the handbell groups page

January 26, 1996

Created link to TCMR Communications home page

January 25, 1996

Updated Jeffers Handbell Supply page

January 7, 1996

Happy New Year! The Christ Church, of Cambridge Massachusetts joins the web

December 26, 1995

The San Joaquin Ringers join the groups page

December 13, 1995

Changed link for Music Mart to point to their own web page

December 9, 1995

Added our first Canadian link, to the Regina Bell Ringers

Changed all references from the "choirs" page to "groups", for obvious reasons

December 5, 1995

Added verbage to the index page of the mailing list archives encouraging everyone to subscribe

December 3, 1995

Linked to Paul McKlveen's list of individual AGEHR members' web pages

November 27, 1995

Changed costs for AGEHR membership to reflect new values, and added e-mail addresses to the membership form

November 24, 1995

Our first international web link, the St. Lawrence Chobhan Handbell Ringers

November 18, 1995

Added links for the Choristers Guild web page in HIC, Publishers, and Vendors

November 8, 1995

The first area newsletter, Area XII Volume 7 number 5

October 29, 1995

The new Handbell-L archives are now on-line

October 5, 1995

Added Baybells information page

September 26, 1995

Added Music Mart, Inc. page to the vendor list

September 8, 1995

Brought the list of AGEHR e-mail representatives on line

September 4, 1995

The Wesley Handbell group joins the list of choirs

August 15, 1995

The preliminary Schulmerich Carillons handbell maintenance manual is now on line.

August 1, 1995

Added The Raleigh Ringers link to the choirs page.

July 21, 1995

Put "next page"/"previous page" entries at the bottom of each of the Malmark manual pages.

July 6, 1995

Put in a whole bunch more links on HTML tutorials on the choir page.

June 24, 1995

Added in an AGEHR, Inc. Membership application.

June 15, 1995

Green Rose Press, Inc. is now doing their own web pages (well, mostly it's being done by them). There's new releases and a new layout for the pages.

Jeffers Handbell Handbell Supply, Inc. has joing the web site. Check them out on the vendors page.

Identified the mystery bell ringer. Come on guys, send in those pictures!

June 6, 1995

A new department... the Mystery Bell Ringer photo. Send your photos of well known people in too.

May 30, 1995

Added a link to the new Sonos Handbell Ensemble web page.

May 11, 1995

Added a link to the University of Colorado Hanbell Ensembles under the handbell choirs on the web page.

We're now supporting AGEHR choir web pages directly on the server (as long as YOU write the HTML code).

May 9, 1995

agehr.www.org Now running at T1 speeds.
Previously, all access to the WWW site was at DS0 speeds (56 KBPS, or 56 Thousand Bits per Second). Now, we're running at T1 speeds (1.544 MBPS, or more than 1 and a half Million Bits per Second). This is an important step in our goal of providing multi-media (sound and audio) presentations of handbell information to our WWW users.

May 1, 1995

Added the "What's new" page

Added the AGEHR Mission Statement.
This includes some of the things we're trying to accomplish with this WWW site. Many more things are to come, and we welcome suggestions and comments.