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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I'm not sure that anyone has actually chec=
ked that=20
the published weights are the correct ones here. Looking at them, I suspect=
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probably are, but remember that the tenor is actually a hundredweight light=
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than previously published. <BR><BR><FONT color=3D#ff0000>True, but if the=20
published weights of the other bells apart from the tenor had been altered =
I=20
would have expected the weights to be evened out so that the trebles appear=
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lighter than the 3rd and 4th.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><FONT color=3D#ff0000>In cases of Taylor t=
welves=20
where the trebles are heavier than the 3rd and / and 4th it is usually the =
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that the trebles have flange tops - e.g. St Margaret's, Leicester, Oldham. =
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only exception I can think of is Rotherham, where the trebles are slig=
htly=20
heavier than the 3rd and 4th but do not have flange tops. G&J did=
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sometimes cast trebles with flange tops (e.g. Birmingham Cathedral).</DIV>
<DIV><BR>David</FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>