Merry Christmas everyone, hope your day was as fantastic as mine.
Apologies for the focus for the first few carols, It gets 100% better at 5:57.
This video is of the octave at my home tower, East Crompton, Lancashire. The bells were down, but the ropes were secured round the clappers with string, so that when pulled, you have control over the clapper striking the bell, as opposed to the bell itself.
You'll notice that some of the notes in the carols are not "right", this is because we only have eight notes to ring them with, so some of the notes are right, but either an octave higher or lower.
I'd be interested to hear feedback from other ringers in the comments section as to how many towers actually do this? As far as I was aware, it was just a northern thing? Are there any southerners that do this also?
Again, Merry Christmas, hope you enjoy! :)
Bodger.