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<DIV class=3DOutlookMessageHeader dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DTah=
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size=3D2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> CHRIS PICKFORD=20
[mailto:c.j.pickford.t21@b...]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 02 September 200=
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14:52<BR><B>To:</B> bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Be=
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Historians] New poll<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Barry Pickup is right about Frome - thou=
gh it's=20
interesting that the bell has since been weighed in the tower and found t=
o be=20
very close to 27-2-22. But it wasn't the date Ron Dove visited, it =
was=20
when the redoubtable James H. Shepherd of Swindon - the great tower grabb=
er=20
and tenor measurer! - went to Frome. A lot of Dove's earlier estimat=
ed=20
weights came from JHS's notebooks. Now, of course, so many more bell=
s=20
have been weighed in the course of subsequent restoration. But we mustn't=
=20
undervalue that initial work by JHS and RHD that led to the first edition=
of=20
"Dove" and still underpins the work.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=3D089223509-02092004></SPAN><FONT face=3DArial><FONT=20
size=3D2>I<FONT color=3D#0000ff><SPAN class=3D089223509-02092004> believe=
the tower=20
was High Ham in Somerset. I think that Frome had a full restoration and=20
retune, which was when the tenor was=20
weighed.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial><FONT size=3D2><FONT color=3D#0000ff><SPAN=20
class=3D089223509-02092004>Andrew Bull</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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