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Didn't it used to be standard practice at Taylors to hang their=20
lightest bells on steel bar headstocks? If I remember correctly the=20
front bells at Surfleet have this type of headstock, as do the trebles=20
of the 1970s eight in Houston, Texas, to mention just a couple.
[They had stopped doing it generally by this point. They started again to s=
ome extent in the 70s with very light eights such as Lightcliffe and Pately=
Bridge (bar stocks on all bells at both), but at Harrogate it certainly ap=
pears to have been done for cheapness.]
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Didn't it used to be standard practice at Taylors to hang their=20
lightest bells on steel bar headstocks? If I remember corre=
ctly=20
the
front bells at Surfleet have this type of headstock, as do the treb=
les=20
of the 1970s eight in Houston, Texas, to mention just a couple.
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[They=20
had stopped doing it generally by this point. They started again to some ex=
tent=20
in the 70s with very light eights such as Lightcliffe and Pately Bridge (ba=
r=20
stocks on all bells at both), but at Harrogate it certainly appears to have=
been=20
done for cheapness.]
David
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