<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 29/05/2003 15:08:14 GMT Daylight Time, zen16073@z... writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">What is interesting is that Bill Butler makes no mention of hemi-spherical<BR>
handbells by Dunn, only ones by Wells of Aldbourne, and James Burrough of<BR>
Devizes. Hemisphereical bells were more commonly used as sheep bells,and<BR>
there are still people who remember their pleasant sound, as opposed to the<BR>
clonk of a nail in a tin which became increasingly common.<BR>
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There is a similar set on the ringing room wall at St Mary's Nottingham. A set on 12 from memory. There was a peal rung on them a while ago.<BR>
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Matthew</FONT></HTML>