------=_NextPart_000_002E_01C54358.DCA96840 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Colin is right and wrong! The original carillon at Marble arch was installed in 1928 =E2=80=93 bass b= ell 6-0-0 in C =20 This instrument was entirely replaced in 1930, but at least fifteen of the = original bells were re-sold to other destinations. Ten of them (nos 8, 10, = 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 22 and 24) went to Holta in Japan as a chime of ten= bells (largest 1-3-23 in G sharp). One (no.28) went to Castle Drogo, Devon= , as a single bell (27=E2=80=9D 4-1-7 in E). Another (no.31) went to Wealds= tone as a single bell (29=E2=85=9E=E2=80=9D 5-1-0 in C sharp); Another (no.= 23) went to Hove as a single bell (20=E2=80=9D 1-2-23 in A). Another (no.22= ) went to Dibrugarh, Assam, as a single bell (18=E2=85=9E=E2=80=9D 1-1-25 i= n A sharp); No.27 is now the hour bell in the clock chime at Blaenavon with= four Gillett quarter bells of 1931. The destiny of the others does not see= m to have been recorded. =20 The second carillon of 1930 had a bass bell 6-2-3 in C So, it was one of the original set - not the carillon displaced in 1964 - t= hat went to Castle Drogo, where it still hangs in an open turret CP ------=_NextPart_000_002E_01C54358.DCA96840 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =EF=BB=BF
Colin is right and wrong!
 

= The=20 original carillon at Marble arch was installed in 1928 =E2=80=93 bass bell = 6-0-0 in=20 C

 

= This=20 instrument was entirely replaced in 1930, but at least fifteen of the origi= nal=20 bells were re-sold to other destinations. Ten of them (nos 8, 10, 12, 13, 1= 5,=20 17, 19, 20, 22 and 24) went to Holta in Japan as a chime of ten bells (larg= est=20 1-3-23 in G sharp). One (no.28) went to Castle Drogo, Devon, as a single be= ll=20 (27=E2=80=9D 4-1-7 in E). Another (no.31) went to Wealdstone as a single be= ll (29=E2=85=9E=E2=80=9D=20 5-1-0 in C sharp); Another (no.23) went to Hove as a single bell (20=E2=80= =9D 1-2-23 in=20 A). Another (no.22) went to Dibrugarh, Assam, as a single bell (18=E2=85=9E= =E2=80=9D 1-1-25 in A=20 sharp); No.27 is now the hour bell in the clock chime at Blaenavon with fou= r=20 Gillett quarter bells of 1931. The destiny of the others does not seem to h= ave=20 been recorded.

 

The second carillon of 1930 had a bass bell 6-2-3 in C<= /P>

 

So, it was one of the original set= - not the=20 carillon displaced in 1964 - that went to Castle Drogo, where it still hang= s in=20 an open turret

 

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