boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0010_01C1BC74.C6231260" ------=_NextPart_001_0010_01C1BC74.C6231260 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was interested in the comments about light trebles & knocked up the enclo= sed ss. Lightest trebles (treble as a % of tenor) are Exeter 9.16 Ipswich 1= 1.46 Liverpool Cathedral 11.54 Waltham Abbey 11.76 Redcliffe 12.08. Heavies= t are Broughton 24.02 Toronto 26.10 Melbourne Derbys 26.15 Grundisburgh 27.= 64 Newport IOW 28.76. Appleton, Dougles & South Croydon are guesses and min= i-rings are not included (Southampton =3D 46.67%!) Clearly several heavier = rings have proportionately lighter trebles & vice versa but there is quite = a lot of variation. Probably as much to do with heavy tenors.... Stuart ----- Original Message -----=20 From: David Bryant=20 To: bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com=20 Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 11:23 PM Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] FW: Light Front Bells Waltham Abbey and Shrewsbury (both 1914, although at Waltham some old bel= ls were reused) have light front ends, with trebles under 5 cwt. Pontefract= have proportionally the lightest front end of any Taylor ring I know of. I= agreee they're superb! =20=20=20 Taylor's front ends of tens and 12s were at their lightest from about 191= 0 until 1920, although not all bells cast in this period have light front e= nds, perhaps surprisingly. In the early 1920s they went to the other extrem= e, and rings such as Oldham (1922) have quite heavy front ends. =20=20=20 David ------=_NextPart_001_0010_01C1BC74.C6231260 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I was interested in the comments about lig= ht=20 trebles & knocked up the enclosed ss. Lightest trebles (treble as a % o= f=20 tenor) are Exeter 9.16 Ipswich 11.46 Liverpool Cathedral 11.54 Waltham Abbe= y=20 11.76 Redcliffe 12.08. Heaviest are Broughton 24.02 Toronto 26.10 Melbourne= =20 Derbys 26.15 Grundisburgh 27.64 Newport IOW 28.76. Appleton, Dougles &= amp;=20 South Croydon are guesses and mini-rings are not included (Southampton =3D= =20 46.67%!) Clearly several heavier rings have proportionately lighter trebles= =20 & vice versa but there is quite a lot of variation. Probably as much to= do=20 with heavy tenors....
 
Stuart
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Fro= m:=20 David Brya= nt=20
To: bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com=
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 = 11:23=20 PM
Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] FW:= Light=20 Front Bells

Waltham Abbey and Shrewsbury (both 1914,= although=20 at Waltham some old bells were reused) have light front ends, with treble= s=20 under 5 cwt. Pontefract have proportionally the lightest front end of any= =20 Taylor ring I know of. I agreee they're superb!
 
Taylor's front ends of tens and 12s were= at their=20 lightest from about 1910 until 1920, although not all bells cast in this= =20 period have light front ends, perhaps surprisingly. In the early 1920s th= ey=20 went to the other extreme, and rings such as Oldham (1922) have quite hea= vy=20 front ends.
 
David
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