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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I duly looked up the RW p.700, 17 August
1984, which CJP kindly refers to and it is a letter from himself,
mentioning the said LP ("Grandes Heures Liturgiques a Notre-Dame de Paris" De
Luxe RC 340, FY 001, made in 1973).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chris states inter alia that the largest bell of
the four is said to weigh 1915 Kg = 37-2-23 1/2, and the Bourdon
(rehung in 1953) 13 tonnes. He also says that the clock is heard striking on
three small clock bells - the quarters on the two larger and the hours on the
smallest. Very peculiar.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This was in reply to an article on p.612 of the
same year referring to a French press report that the four "enormes
cloches" of the north tower viz:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Denise-David: 760 Kg</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hyacnith-Jean: also quoted as 760, shurely
not?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Antoinette-Charlotte: 1300 Kg</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Angelique Francoise: 1800 Kg</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>'had become "tres fatiguees" exposed as they
are permanently to "le vent" and "la pluie" and worst of all to "les crottes de
pigeon" - in fact the floor below was apparently covered with three
centimetres of "fiente de pigeon" '. Lucky them, I can think of a couple of
towers where it is three metres!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry about the mssing graves, acutes, circumflexes
and cidyllas; don't know how to put them in.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That was the edition recording St Paul's win
at St Paul's in the 12-bell. And the sartotial elegance of the band on the
cover page is continued over to the back - as the picture there of Mark Regan
illustrates. But that's not bell history.</FONT></DIV>
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