I'll never catch up. I'll spend the rest of the week trying to figure out how one rings a bell backwards.

Now, were your reference, wwh, to a bell ringer's bell, then I suppose ringing a bell backwards could be causing the clanger to hit against the bell as you pulled it in toward your chest. Perhaps this is a special effect sometimes used.

But a bell in a belltower? Oh, dear. This makes no sense at all--and even it the bell ringer could somehow pull that great bell in a different direction, how would the sound be altered?

I guess could go google campanology techniques...

...but then there are all these words ringing up there in your thread!

[You and I know what's coming:]

Bell regards and Behemoth Ones, too,
WordWinger