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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Pat Cannon, the legendary self-styled "ten=
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king", rang several tenors that suffered weight loss when actually wei=
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But there was one exception - and a real bender it was, too. After Pa=
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rang it, he challenged Chris Kippin to ring it for a wager - which he duly=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Always reckoned to be 23 cwt, Edington act=
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turned out to be 24-0-24 !</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>CP</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=3Dbill@h... href=3D"mailto:bill@h...">Bill=20
Hibbert</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 12, 2002=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Tenor=20
weights</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>. . . and to confound those doubting Thomases who clai=
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that tenors <BR>of uncertain weight get heavier with every peal: Rosthern=
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tenor was <BR>always supposed to be 17 or 18cwt, but hadn't been out of t=
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tower <BR>for centuries. When I was a lad, I always assumed this was 13cw=
t of=20
<BR>bronze and 5cwt of bravado. When I went there the other day to take=20
<BR>recordings, I discovered that when E&S rehung it a while ago they=
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<BR>found it was HEAVIER, I see it now appears in Dove as 20-0-0 (without=
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