My name is Derek Brahmi.

I am the director of bands and hand bells at Saints Galactica.

So my passion for hand bells is that it's unlike any other music I do, I sing, I direct, I'm a low brass player by degree.

Sorry, but trombonist and tuba player and, I direct bands.

I direct low brass ensembles.

I direct the quiet copper top.

I do all these musical endeavors, but Hand Bells is unlike any of them.

The one of the best parts is it's not conducted.

So we don't have a conductor standing out in front of us.

And telling us what to do.

I am the director of the group.

I'm in the group, and I play a spot right in the group along with everybody else.

So what's happening today?

For instance, this is called for and handing.

And so you get multiple bells.

I am so somewhat new to this because I usually play the low bells, but if you have them in some kind of order, you can ring multiple bells.

You can ring multiple bells at once just because they're in different places.

So these bells in my hands ring just like other bells that you'd, that you'd ring.

So you just ring forwards and you can still dampen them.

The other ones are tilted to the side and it's the you put them in kind of a knock.

So the form to ring them is like you're knocking on a door.

So technically you could bring up a whole scale.

It's a, it's a visual art form as well as an oral art form.

So you get to people who come to the concerts whenever they see, they get to watch, they get to listen.

You can close your eyes and just enjoy all of the music being made, but also you can just open your eyes and see all the crazy things that are happening on the tables.

It's a riot.

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