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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>For the
period, I consider that the Evans foundry of Chepstow cast better bells. The
six at Cwmdu, which were left untuned when Eayre & Smith rehung them, are
– to my ears anyway – a very pleasant old-style six, and the
decision not to retune them was the correct one.</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Good
point. The Evans 10<sup>th</sup> at Exeter Cathedral is a very fine-sounding
bell, and I’ve come across other very good examples too – from memory,
the back five at Luccombe in Somerset are very nice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>
David’s comments on the Bilbies are interesting, as they were direct
competitors to Evans, as the well-known inscription at Backwell bears testament.</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ve
heard quite a lot of Bilbie bells, and most of those by the Chewstoke branch of
the family seem to be old-style but generally quite decent-sounding. The
Cullompton branch of the family, however, produced some pretty awful bells –
I’m pretty sure the tenor at Staple Fitzpaine is one of them (detail for
this tower is incomplete on Dove), and it’s undoubtedly one of the
worst-sounding bells I’ve ever heard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David</span>
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