She dubbed it a "Fairy Bell Ringer ... What Do Elves With Bells Sound Like? Naturally some of her readers wanted to hear what she heard. "Tiny elves ringing bells" is such a gripping metaphor.

But in the meantime, Bill Fontana is bringing the sounds of the cathedral’s bells—which survived the fire—to the public. Fontana, an artist based in the Bay Area, isn’t capturing the ...