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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Cobh site doesn't seem to wish to open; but the
two bells added by Eijsbouts to augment to 49 were numbers 2 and 3 on
the carillon scale (48th and 47th of 49 on the "ringing" scale, notes A# and B.
That is the "missing" two bass semitones), thus</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bass Taylor 1916 67-2-22 A</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>48 Eijsbouts 1998 ?
weight A#</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>47 Eijsbouts 1998 ?
weight B</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>46 Taylor 1916
48-2-3 C</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Bass and what should now be No. 46 are in the
diary, in "my" (amended) list. If I was still doing it I would include 48
and 47 with their correct weights and the date 1998 and the founders' initials
RE (Royal Eijsbouts). RE would also be noted at the foot of the list as such
with (2 bells).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The BCS newsletter No.47 March 1999 gives the
bass note as Ab; if so, then the others will be A, Bb and B, which looks
rather thin to me. ADH will perhaps give the correct particulars
of the JT bells? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And perhaps GAD can extract the correct details of
the two new basses, especially their weights, from Eijsbouts. Apparently the
whole lot went off to Holland for restoration in 1998.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The discovery of those weights will be significant.
The Cobh instrument is the largest in Britain and Ireland by one bell. Aberdeen
and Bournville are the largest in the UK by number of bells (48); but by
weight of Bass bell Aberdeen is by far the heaviest in the UK and
Ireland, being a couple of pounds under 4 1/2 tons, and the carillon
has only the lower 'missing' bass semitone. Has the increase in number
at Cobh dethroned Aberdeen in overall weight despite the
latter's much heavier bass bells? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks to Richard Offen and Dickon Love for support
in recent postings; and I noted with no surprise Andrew Wilby's contrary
attitude. For the record I have before me a 1987 diary with the
publishers' thanks on p.91, and it was not the only one.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I heard a suggestion that additional big bells
had been installed with the carillon at Cobh, in Eire. I see that only the
1916 Taylor bass bell is included in the diary list. Does anyone have any
information on this reported augmentation, and does it warrant a change to the
existing list?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>CP</FONT></DIV>
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