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The bells were used for the last time at the evening Mass on the Thursday. There were no further Masses until the Mass of Easter when bells were rung again (with gusto at the Gloria & the organ goes mad). Monasteries use the clappers instead of bells to call the community for it's various acts over the 3 days.

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I believe the old term in Rusyn and Galician parishes was "kalatala", presumably an approximation of "crotalus". Compelled or not they are a Latin borrowing, and in use or appearance are quite unlike a semandron.
FDD

Dear djs,

It was only compelled by those EC's who developed such a BC second-class sense of liturgical self that they had to have any and all things that the Latins had!

How else were we going to validate our feelings of ecclesial self-worth?

Don't worry, I'm not attacking your precious Rome!

Alex

What are you attacking, and why?

Dear djs,

I said I'm not . . .

Alex

Attention Father Deacon John,

Quack, Quack!

Incognitus

I heard clackers were brought into the Church by Parrot loving Pirates. They just couldn't stop asking Polly want a Clacker?

To the person who asked where you could buy these items, may I suggest a teacher's supply store? I have fond and not-so-fond memories of those clacker and/or clappers being used by various harried schoolteachers, trying in vain to keep order. I'd like to get one for my office!

You might be thinking of the "Clicker"- which was quite different than the "Clacker" aka "Clapper".
Our nuns used the clickers to signal turn left/stop/turn right/bow/sit/stand or anything else they needed to signal, such as 'stop talking'.
Our "Clacker" was a boxy looking object with a handle, which when turned with the wrist made a deep hammer-on-wood sound.

This brings back memories!
Sam