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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The point being made had nothing to do wit=
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difficulties or otherwise of teaching people to ring on heavy bells. =
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are other websites for this. The original point raised by CD arose fr=
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the historic aspects of the lamented loss of Glastonbury's heavy eight and =
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replacement with an 'ordinary' lighter one and relating it to the the loss =
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historic ring and installation in a church in a World Heritage=20
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 22, 2003 7:5=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Bell Historians] Lig=
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rings, Avebury continued.</DIV>
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size=3D2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Dennis Powney [<A=20
href=3D"mailto:dennis.powney@l...">mailto:dennis.powney@lineone.=
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21 March 2003 18:54<BR><B>To:</B> <A=20
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[Bell Historians] Light rings, Avebury continued.<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>O.K. So several of you have taught you=
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to ring on heavy bells. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>But that was only half of my comment, =
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also mentioned the Avebury ringers at the other end of the scale. =
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial><FONT size=3D2>I wonder how many local persons,=
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have passed the age of collecting the National Old Age Pension, have be=
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taught to ring at Chewton Mendip, for instance, in the past fifteen yea=
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? <BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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color=3D#0000ff>At Holy Trinity, Bradford (nearly 30cwt) we r=
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taught a sixty-year old to ring. But then he does have some light relie=
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Christ Church (12 cwt-ish) every other=20
week.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><SPAN class=3D276064519-22032003=
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