Curious, a man's affection for the object that he manipulates.

The mechanic's love for his machine.

The thing that one tends, and that obeys one, becomes personalized, and one ends by falling in love with it.

And the bell is an instrument in a class of its own.

It is baptized like a Christian, anointed with sacramental oil, and according to the pontifical rubric it is also to be sanctified, in the interior of its chalice, by a bishop, in seven cruciform unctions with the oil of the infirm that it may send to the dying the message which shall sustain them in their last agonies.
"It is the herald of the Church, the voice from without as the priest is the voice from within.