Besides these there is also what Cowper called "clock-work tintinnabulum" -- mere empty jingle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden] Reference

It may be noted here that in regard to this same tintinnabulum usage varies very much in different countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

See for example Martial, "Epig.", xiv, 161, where the signal for the opening of the baths is made with a tintinnabulum also described as œs thermarum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

It seemed by the distant hum as if somebody's bees had swarmed, and that the neighbors, according to Virgil's advice, by a faint tintinnabulum upon the most sonorous of their domestic utensils, were endeavoring to call them down into the hive again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden] Reference

He establishes himself firmly in the land with great joy and plenty; and he gathers round him all that makes life full-toned and harmonious, from the grand timbre of draught-ale and the organ-thunder of hunting, to the piccolo and tintinnabulum of Poker and maraschino.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series] Reference

It seemed by the distant hum as if somebody’s bees had swarmed, and that the neighbors, according to Virgil’s advice, by a faint tintinnabulum upon the most sonorous of their domestic utensils, were endeavoring to call them down into the hive again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden] Reference

Capitolii qui erant custodes senatui, &c. He mentions an example of the Saxons and Suevi, who, after they had been subdued by Agrippa, again rebelled: tintinnabulum sonuit; sacerdos qui erat in speculo in hebdomada senatoribus nuntiavit: Agrippa marched back and reduced the — Persians, (Anonym. in Montfaucon, p. 297.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

= Sonuit tintinnabulum.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference