When you 'Ring The Bell' you generate, by means of a number of percussive events, a complex series of harmonic waves within the metallic structure of the body known as 'The Bell'. These vibrations, in turn, transmit across the interface between solid and gasous phases becoming compression waves within the latter medium. Radiating in all directions, upon reaching a human (or other animal, and not excluding the possibility that this may apply within other phyla) auditory organ, these waves are perceived as sound; a sound specifically termed by humans as 'Ringing' due to the harmonic nature which is preserved in crossing the phase boundry. By back-exrapolating the term 'Ringing' to the solid phase event, the percussive actions originating the processes outlined above may legitimately be termed 'Ringing The Bell'.QUOTE]
Exactly my point Tyfon I'm glad you laid it down in laymans terms.