Rick Gunn/Nevada Appeal Nancy Mielke, center, is the founder and director of the Red Hot Bell Peppers. She is the choir and handbell teacher at Carson Middle School. There are 35 students in beginning and advanced classes ringing three- and five-octave sets of Malmark handbells and three octaves of chimes.

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Q&A Tuesday: What's that ringing in my ears?

• By ncs-import
• February 9, 2005