Half Muffled Grandsire Triples In The Belfry at St Peters Roman Catholic Church, Leamington Spa
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View of a bottle of water on it's side at 2:35
Some turbulence at 4:14
The ringing in this video is sections of a quarter peal of Grandsire Triples, rung for All Souls. Due to the fact that the ladder ran through the pit of the seventh, I had to go up before the bells were rung up and had to stay on the small platform for about 55 minutes! It was in fact an enjoyable experience.... the sway was most impressive and watching bells ringing is never boring.
Cast and installed in 1905 by John Taylor and Co of Loughborough, this 16cwt 8 hang high up in the slender brick tower of St Peter the Apostle, right in the centre of Leamington Spa. Because of the position they are in, the bells are affected a lot by the movement of the tower, making ringing them properly an arduous task requiring effort and skill. One has to pull very hard at every stroke and be prepared for the bell to either make it to the balance or fly towards the stay... if your bell drops, it will affect other bells in the tower. The dynamics of the ring are so unpredictable but essentially, if everyone puts in effort into every stroke, theoretically the changes come out well.
The tower was added to the slightly earlier church in 1878, and a ring of six bells was installed by William Blews of Birmingham. A desire to improve on the Blews bells was probably prompted by the restoration and augmentation of the bells at All Saints Anglican church nearby in 1901... a heavier and much finer set of bells was duly installed in St Peter's tower!
They have been regarded as unringable or have been unobtainable for periods of time in their existence due to fears about the instability of the tower... however, after efforts by Sam Austin a few years ago, the bells are presently rung by an arranged band approximately monthly.
The small bell hung dead above the tenor is an electrically operated Angelus bell, donated by a prominent bell historian to this tower in 2005. It is originally from a monastery in Leicestershire, and was cast in 1852, by John Taylor and Son in 1852. The other bell from the monastery is now in the museum at Taylors.
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Yay! I love half muffled bells!
i used to feel sea sick in that tower in the 1980s!
An Isle of hope and glory
@meme2702 The same is true here. It is rare that full circle change ringing is done for a funeral or somebody dying. Half muffled ringing is done every year for the day we remember soldiers that died in wars
a very fine sound indeed!
@combineharvestersam They're bloody glorious. Thanks for opening them up.
Nice clip and I love half muffled ringing it adds a another dimension to ringing and today is 11/11/11
Sounds great!
Habituellement, je ne suis pas attiré par ce genre de sonneries, mais je dois avouer que celle-ci me plait beaucoup. Elle est même très intéressante !
Just beautiful
They're still fantastic bells!
@meme2702 It was the first time i have been close to bells with muffled clappers. I did not know the clapper bounced so much. What would you consider a "funebre peal" The stay system here was used only by John Taylors when they hung bells. It is called the Hastings Stay, i have a drawing which explains.
@irkibby In my region the way of announcing that a person in the parish has dead is very different in each single village, but in general only one bell is struck with distant tollings.
nice ! =)
@KDowner94 Oh yes, they're outstanding bells
@arnoldusglocke A piece of leather is put on one side of the kloppel. It is only done on sad occasions.
@simonbellringer It is the 5th alongside the two trebles on the top tier. And yes, I have rung with John Gwynne a fair bit but not too much. He rings at Warwick who practice on Wednesdays, the same night as my own practice so I only see him for quarters etc
3:56
Very interesting, I think it's the first half muffled video which appears on KZread with an internal film. It's very interesting, although it's difficult for me to relate it to a funebre peal. I don't understand how the system stay-slider works...
@irkibby This is also used in South Tyrol. Equally on sad occasions!
Good sond
Erm id love to ring here
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Is it me or Taylor’s bells in F sound beautiful ?
@chillinbro5423
11 ай бұрын
Nah I’d say it’s every person who rings loves Taylor bells in f or f#
Are the bells green or, does the bells have a bronz color?
@Orgelix Are there any videos of your Sud Tyrolean half muffled ringing? I would like to show it to English ringers if there is a video
@pierrot708 thankyou
Absoloutely fantastic sound and some fine ringing!! Which is the bell at 0:26 btw? My ears tell me it's the 6, my gut tells me it's a little out of synch, lol!! Oh and I see John Gwynne rang, he used to be a Swindon ringer!! Know him well? At the same time this was going on I was conducting my first Triples also, 1288 GRandsire in 48 minutes at St Mark Swindon, lol!! :)
That's great! I Love your videos!! Does this sound like an echo occur more often? It's completely new to me, but very attractive. ***** Thank you, irkibby! :-)
By Richard: the bell of min 2:19 ???
@irkibby Lol, great to hear that St NIcks will soon be back, them and Allesley are the only towers my brother has (and should ever have!!) over me; he rang the "old" 8 at Allesley before the 3 & 4 were replaced!!!
why they are muffled
@irkibby Yes, I have rung with him a couple of times at Warwick St Marys (not St Nicks as theyre out of action!!) a couple of times, plus a couple of quarters earlier inm the year. Where do you ractice? Because Wednesbury ppractice on a Wednesday and you threatened to come over had we gone, lol!!
@ashitaka13400 Thankyou!
1:07
I saw a water bottle
@simonbellringer St Nicks will be ringing again in about a months time. The Wednesday practice is at Stoke in Coventry, they're here on my channel somewhere. And I can miss the occasional practice.
@irkibby Lol, note I put old in inverted commas!! I dont mind really!!! Any idea where the old 3 will go?
what a delightful ring of bells! I must admit I really do love Taylor rings but then again in Burton Upon Trent we have nothing but fine Taylor rings and a ring they retuned very well! :-) If you want to see examples of this then please check out my youtube channel.
These are said to be F+, it sounds more like F#-
@fredmills368
6 жыл бұрын
No these are definitely F
@MGRinger02
5 жыл бұрын
@@fredmills368 Well that's very debatable. I personally think the border-line from F+ to F#- begins at around 715.0Hz (and F#- starts at 718.5Hz). These bells are at 720.0Hz, and the majority of rings at 720.0Hz are noted as F#-. Here are a several examples: Whaplode, Washingborough, Burton Bradstock & North Bradley (719.0Hz).
@MGRinger02
5 жыл бұрын
@@fredmills368 I'd also say that Caerphilly's bells are in F#-, rather than F+, as they're at 718.5Hz. They sound fantastic.
why muffle the bells?
@SCR1PTDECRYPT
7 жыл бұрын
thanks!
@SCR1PTDECRYPT
7 жыл бұрын
really...
@zvonazgnadbiskupije1094
6 жыл бұрын
Maybe someone died
@simonbellringer They're still essentially the same ring, if you want to ring the 4th is is still in the tower with a chiming hammer, and the 3rd is still waiting at Loughborough and will at some point be hung for ringing again. So all is not lost, not that they were a good sound anyway... ringing the back six was just unpleasant because of the two "thud"s on the front of the change.
Key of G flat
WHERE DOES THE LADDER GO UP TO IN THE BELFRY?
@irkibby
7 жыл бұрын
THE TOWER ROOF
Sad These bells sound
@RingerThomas
4 жыл бұрын
Probably Cause there tuned to an old concert pitch. It makes them sound between two notes so in that case makes them sound mournful
THESE BELLS ARE BETTER THAN ALL SAINTS
@RohrDC
5 жыл бұрын
Why would you say something so brave yet controversial?
dont
@c-pla5-g251
6 жыл бұрын
dont waht
@RohrDC
5 жыл бұрын
just don't
@RohrDC
5 жыл бұрын
@@fredmills368 just don't