They sound more like clay flower pots than bells. These definitely are in need to breaking up and recasting

@jenlfpotter3870

8 ай бұрын

I agree, especially the second. That's a semitone out of tune. Fundraising effort needed here, urgently.JH

@Steven_Rowe

8 ай бұрын

@@jenlfpotter3870 I wonder if they would tune up ok

@JamesJoynson

8 ай бұрын

Not anymore

@JamesJoynson

8 ай бұрын

We are raising money, but only to have them restored and rehung. The bells are never gonna go.

@Ringer_Fran

8 ай бұрын

The exercise would become a fair bit less interesting if novelty rings like these disappeared on a regular basis.

interesting slide bar on the tenor

@BellRingingMember488

8 ай бұрын

it doesn’t look like it

@JamesJoynson

8 ай бұрын

That is a custom made slider, which was made and fitted in 1992 when the bells were last restored. It works very similarly to a Gillett & Johnston hasting slider. Where there isn’t a dingler on the stay like a JT hasting, but the slider is metal and slides back and forth on a greased metal bar.

@BellRingingMember488

8 ай бұрын

ok

Is the tenor up wrong?

@adamm2693

8 ай бұрын

it appears to be flying from the correct side ! id say no

@JamesJoynson

8 ай бұрын

Nope. It’s up right

@tittums

8 ай бұрын

Maybe I’m looking at the wrong bell but the bell I’m watching is certainly up wrong as the clapper is falling with the swing of the bell and not flying with it.

@JamesJoynson

8 ай бұрын

@tittums It’s the time delay. Remember the bell is huge for its weight. It’s also very odd-struck. So one rotation, you can see it just starting to fly where it’s early, the other side it still looks like it’s on the wrong side where it hasn’t left yet

@RingerOliver59

8 ай бұрын

is it the bell on the top of the frame?