While reading this thread, the local church bells (reformiert) starting ringing and they reminded me that the ringing of the church bells are also used as a social part of life in Switzerland.Today for instance everyone who hears the bells knows that someone in the community has died and that the funeral service will be today another example is the half hour bell ringing on saturday evenings at five o`clock that signals no more work till monday. In some villages in Engadine there is the six o`clock wake up get up for work bells and the seven o`clock in the evening bells which is for the local children a signal that it`s time to go home and have dinner.