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I doubt that lowering the tenor weight by about 3 cwt is going to make a blind bit of difference to the tower sway!<BR>
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I answer to Ted's question, whilst, as with many such installations, there are those who will greatly mourn the loss of this 'characterful' ring, their tuning is pretty dreadful. When Taylors recast the trebles and restored the ring in 1952 they made them one of their horrible 'stretched' peals (not anything approaching a true octave interval between any of the bells that should have one!) and I suspect, although I have never looked at the bells closely, it was considered there was insufficient metal to undertake a satifactory 'de-stretching' operation.<BR>
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We have a similar 'stretched' peal here at St George's Cathedral, where the treble is approximately an octave plus a quarter of a semi-tone sharp of the tenor ...it makes my teeth grind every time I hear it, which is <EM>very</EM> regularly!<BR>
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Yours almost toothlessly (!)<BR>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">A new 12 for Great St. Mary's.<BR>
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I'm sure this must be good news but I am interested to know what is <BR>
considered to be wrong with the present twelve. I remember thinking that <BR>
there was a lot of tower movement when I rang there some years back but <BR>
apart from that they seemed OK. What have I missed? Is there any plan <BR>
for the old bells?<BR>
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