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FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" PTSIZE=3D"10">Does anyone have any information these b=
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frame please. I had a look up there earlier this afternoon , and the=20
installation was fascinating . Bells 3 and the tenor are Taylor recasts in =
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( or possibly 1898 ). I know that they were last rung in the early 1980's .=
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tower - room for ten !.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3Darial,helvetica><FONT color=3D#ff0000 size=3D2>Andrew Bul=
l and I are=20
compiling a Somerset bells list, but I don't appear to have any details of=
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these. Andrew has been through the Taylor records, so I'm surprised that if=
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is a Taylor job we don't have details. Who are the frame / fittings by? If =
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was a local bellhanger (i.e. probably Thomas Doble of Taunton) that might=20
account for us not having the details. Doble did obtain his bells from Tayl=
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generally, and his frame castings I suspect - these have his name on but ar=
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identical to Taylor ones. The frames are usually composite. Perhaps CJND ca=
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comment further on Doble's frames.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3Darial,helvetica><FONT color=3D#ff0000 size=3D2>David</FON=
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