Beautiful bells.. without doubt my favourite peal after Westminster Abbey. Some nice Orion Maximus until about halfway though when the tenor and middle bells lost their way. They tidied it up though. Such nice music from the tenors

@Steven_Rowe

7 ай бұрын

I love Bow they sound wonderful.. My dad hung the bells at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, they are a copy of Canterbury so have the flat 6b and exta treble and they sound wonderful. The light q0 are really charming to ring.

No more pure a sound of overwhelming joy has ever been crafted by the hand of man. Deo Gratias et soli Deo gloria!

Born in '66 within the sound of these bells. Love 'em always.

@Steven_Rowe

9 жыл бұрын

I think they are the nicest sounding peal in London. Just my opinion.

@FranzFerdinandVIII

5 жыл бұрын

*THIS IS ONLY AN OPINION:* bow peal is second best, and St. Pauls peal is best (London)

@ryantried

4 жыл бұрын

Southwark is the best in London!

There is some nice music in the method, the near miss at the first half lead sounds good.

Masmerising watching and listening to these bells. Good striking as is to be expected with Maximus and a lovely "ring" in the bells after they stand!

Well I love Bow they do soulnd brilliant my Dad hung them in 1961 along witth Bill Theobald but I have to admit, that York is just the best sounding peal I have ever heard. Again just my humble opinion. Steve

@FranzFerdinandVIII

5 жыл бұрын

Acoustics maybe?

Beautifull ❤

Well Mr Ernie Rowe ,,, I salute you Sir ,,, You and your colleagues did an outstanding job ,,, the legacy of your craftsmanship leaves on ,,,,

@jimethota

5 жыл бұрын

Please just put a tiny bit of effort into learning how to not completely and utterly butcher the English language.

@FranzFerdinandVIII

5 жыл бұрын

@@jimethota And what if he does?

Superb bells, and ringing!

Wonderful sounds!

I saw that church even St. Paul's cathedral with the clock chimes in the evening and even here Big Ben chime 12 midday

, Respectable striking!!!! :) these bells are bloody marvelous to listen to!

I'm learning to ring and I like this very much - nice even bells.

Brilliant sound and definitely a fantastic sounding ring of 12.

@Steven_Rowe

10 жыл бұрын

George I am expecting a video clip from you conducting some Stedman Cinques, Your Ipswich peal was fantastic, wish I could have rung in it. And as much as I love Whitechapel bells I do think Taylor heavy bells are really something special

@paulwood6017

9 жыл бұрын

steven rowe Paul Wood here from Tottenham in the old days - trying to trace old friends. We rang the bells in St Anne's Church when we were 6 and you emigrated in 1972.Would love to get in touch (In Hertfordshire now can let you have my facebook/twitter details. Have multiple posted to try to find you!!!

@Steven_Rowe

9 жыл бұрын

Paul Wood im on facebook wearing dark sunnies and a bald bonde Remember tge Fairweathers now THEY were trouble

Great sound

Watching Sherlock Holmes, the auctioneer mentioned these when selling "Musicical Boxes", so, i simply had to take a look. WoW! Ear Plugs needed! Beautiful. Living here in the Forest with the silence is far more my style! `: ) c'ya,SherlockHolmes ~

What a magnificent view of a stunning ring... but what the heck are they ringing!?!

wow one of the best ive found. post/., nice/..

@Steven_Rowe

7 жыл бұрын

philip thomey Thanks Phil i would love to go back witha better camera. you can actually get above the bells for a panoramic view. lots of memories at Bow i can clearly remember seeing dad installing them in 1961

Just reading through all the comments of my video it seems many people love York and maybe thing St Pauls are bad. I love them all, York simply because it has a depth and warmth like a fine bottle of full bodied shiraz. St Paul to me are the sound of HOME, I know they are not modern bells but they are Classic. I love Bow, I believe it is Whitechapel at its best and I do have a heart for whitechapel. My old man Ernie always said Whitechapel for Trebles and Taylors for Tenors. Good call I think

@francescogreenslade7793

2 жыл бұрын

I like olde 6s and 8s, probably to do with the area where I ring, we've only got one 12 in the county East Grinstead, though Guildford Cathedral is closer.

Lovely Cricket

Magnifico

Well done Mears and Stainbank, yet again!

I wasn’t born as a cockney, but I do have a east London accent

@Steven_Rowe

6 жыл бұрын

DGJ P Many people think anyone born in London is a cockney which is of course not true. Bow bells were destroyed during ww2 the new bells were cast in 1956 and were installed in Dec 1961. Technically this means that for around 20 years there were no cockneys born Ok just a trivia

Whitechapel, he he he!!

Just wonderfull. Thank you for posting. If you would like to be a part of the wonderful ancient traditional art of bell ringing and visit churches minsters and cathedrals around the British Isles join a group near you. I did I've been to some amazing places and met some amazing people. These bells are just wonderful.

@Steven_Rowe

3 жыл бұрын

John My dad hung Bow along with Bill Theobald. I have been a college youth since 1967 but certainly no great ringer. Have you seen my video on Great Paul? My dad also,hung At Mary's Cathedral in Sydney. These are a carbon copy of Canterbury including the sharp treble and flat 6 to give a really lovely light 10 I do like the back 10 though

These arn't just the best sounding 12 in London, but in my opinion one of the best sounding 12 in the country!! But then I would rather have Whitechapel anyday

@FranzFerdinandVIII

5 жыл бұрын

For me, it's Taylor trebles, Whitechapel tenors, and Gillett & Johnston bourdons all the way.

I probably wasnt at the time Tim!! These are absolutely fantastic bells!!! I do like St Pauls a lot, but they are good in a different way, and dont come anywhere near these, sadly!! :)

St Mary le Bow church. It is easy to get confused with Bow church which is located in the middle of the road going tp Stratford.

@Steven_Rowe

3 жыл бұрын

And it's easy to get run over if you wind up going to Bow in the road

I Asbsolutly agree with both you rob and topshed34a

beautiful bells! I love them, the audio has some flaws but it doesn't matter! 😉👌

@Steven_Rowe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment, you are correct about the audio.it was taken with a Sony camera using 8mm tape, I think the distortion is either the audio overloading the mic or the xoumd wave vibration affecting the tape running through the recording heads.

@carbonrocket Right then, This here is Bellringing done in the English style. There are about 5000 rings of bells in England, but few elsewhere. Because the bells swing full circle it is hard to play tunes on them, so we ring mathematical patterns instead. The bells start by playing descending musical scales, which is the first sequence, and then swap over adjacent pairs of bells in the sequence. These patterns are called methods. Sadly, space here is far too limited for a full description.

@KDowner94 I like the bells of St. Pauls

No ones mentioned how great westminster abbeys bells are!

@Steven_Rowe

9 жыл бұрын

Westminster Abbey as re great bells and I would si love to ring a peal of Stedman Caters

@AshleyMonck

9 жыл бұрын

I think anyone would love to ring anything on the abbeys bells! I also like York Minsters bells

@paulwood6017

9 жыл бұрын

steven rowe Me again!!! Sorry for the repeated posts but hoping you will spot one as I am not too IT savvy!! We rang the Bells at St Anne's Church when we were 6 years old!!! Would love to get in touch and talk about the old days.

@Steven_Rowe

9 жыл бұрын

Paul Wood paul did u live in Beechfield Road near the Oakdale Arms

@paulwood6017

9 жыл бұрын

steven rowe I certainly did.

OK, judging by listening to the treble to see what it was doing, and by where the tenor was at each lead end, I think it's 3 leads of Orion and then 1 lead of Bristol. The ringing gets a tiny bit scrappy in the middle, but then Orion is a very hard method.

Sounds like Orion Surprise Maximus.

@ajonmusic803

7 жыл бұрын

Sounds like plain hunt max

@jasonburnet9181

5 жыл бұрын

Ringer Jake It is.

@RingerJake

5 жыл бұрын

@@ajonmusic803 It's not PH Max. The treble isn't hunting up and the tenor is repeatedly dodging in and out of 12ths.

@FranzFerdinandVIII

5 жыл бұрын

Judging by the comments with Orion, it has to be insanely hard.

@RingerJake

5 жыл бұрын

It is... hellishly so! I've looked at the blue line once and my head revolved many times.

2:27 5:47

What happened to the original great bell of Bow? You know, in the children's song?

@Steven_Rowe

6 жыл бұрын

Bunny Bgood there has be many bells in bow. He bells before this peal were destroyed by the blitz.

@FranzFerdinandVIII

5 жыл бұрын

Historiee of BOW: First hung for curfew in 1300s Recast in 1400s Melted in the Great Fire of 1666 Recast in 1878 by Mears and Stainbank Recast in 1933 by Gillett & Johnston Destroyed during the Blitz in 1941 Recast in 1956 by Whitechapel Video created in 2000 by steven rowe

Yes, it is Orion. Did they splice it with Little Bob or something similar in order to get back to rounds? It sounded like they rang at least one lead of Orion, something else, and then the last lead of a plain course of Orion.

@carbonrocket Can you be a bit more specific in what you want to know please. Are you a ringer/do you know anything about bell music?

@simonbellringer Probably yeah

I'm ringing here in July :)

@Steven_Rowe

8 жыл бұрын

you will love them. great sounding 12 and easy to ring. lovely ringing room too.

@jasonburnet9181

8 жыл бұрын

So am I

@AshleyMonck

8 жыл бұрын

+Ringer Jason Are you ringing for the Ely DA?

@jasonburnet9181

8 жыл бұрын

+Ashley Monck Yes, or if not we can take 10 people! :-)

@AshleyMonck

8 жыл бұрын

+Ringer Jason Presumably it will be 10 people as you will need 8 ringers and 2 reserves :)

What cathedral are they located in?

I think that tenor could do with a wooden shafted clapper :)

@Steven_Rowe

8 жыл бұрын

Do whitechapel use wooden shafts? Only ever seen them on Taylor bells.

@AshleyMonck

8 жыл бұрын

+steven rowe I would've thought they would do. I mean it shouldn't be copyrighted to Taylor's

@simonbellringer Good God - you must be the only person who likes St Pauls buckets - err I mean bells!

@FranzFerdinandVIII

5 жыл бұрын

haw

Loud?

now i almost hear a muffling thing at 5:55

What Method? Sounds interesting

@Steven_Rowe

3 жыл бұрын

I have no idea what method it was as I went up the stairs early Obviously some surprise maximus. The tenors seemed to be at the back all the time,so it was rather odd.

@timmeh1507 Nope - I quite like St Pauls' sound

we're all cockneys now !

@FranzFerdinandVIII

5 жыл бұрын

You might be exactly right.

@simonbellringer St Paul's? Are you 'avin a laff!!

@KDowner94 Why? Whats wrong with St Pauls? Or is this just my appalling music taste letting me down again...

@Whittingtons Well, I suppose it's everybody personal opinion at the end of the day isn't it.

@irkibby it sounds like orion

@daffyfromuk

4 жыл бұрын

It is orion

wow this are magnificent bells i carnt tell if thers 1 or 12

@AshleyMonck

8 жыл бұрын

You must be blind and deaf then

@kiwibellringer9729

5 жыл бұрын

Ashley Monck I think she might mean 11 or 12

@FranzFerdinandVIII

5 жыл бұрын

bow down to Bow (tenor in the middle)

I,m a CY, not the best ringer in the world and thank GOD I am not an elitist like so many ringers

@FranzFerdinandVIII

5 жыл бұрын

True Cockney?

st. mary le bow?

@Steven_Rowe

5 жыл бұрын

Yes St Mart le Bow. I really should google why the church is called St Mary le Bow when Bow itself is actually in the East End along mile end road

No I'm sorry, Bow are just that tiny bit better than York in my opinion. York are my second best peal. Just my OPINION

I'm presuming this is a remote camera and nobody would be as foolish as to be up in a belfry while bells are ringing. The noise could kill you.

@Steven_Rowe

6 жыл бұрын

Anna Believe it or not there are things called hearing protection. They are used in industrial areas where noise can damage hearing about

@FranzFerdinandVIII

5 жыл бұрын

XD/XD