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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>At Glandford, Norfolk, there is a very good
twelve-bell chime (Taylors 1900, 11-1-17 in G) complete with chiming clock and
an impressive barrell which plays every three hours; there is a weekly selection
of tunes. You can see it in action at the end of the John Betjeman film A
Passion for Churches. A video is still advertised for sale on the Whitechapel
website.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Re Richard's email below: the clock bells, now
hanging above Great Dunstan are all the more interesting as they are nos
4-8 of the "characterful" old twelve which preceded the present ring in the SW
tower. On GD's place among good-sounding 18th-century bells: one has to
remember that the bell is by no means as cast - indeed some 6-cwt lighter after
the very successful tuning had been completed. I would put my
money on the Lester & Pack front 11 at Mancroft, never tuned by
anyone after being supplied to the church. When Taylors rehung them in 1925
they neither suggested nor undertook any tuning to these bells, only to the T
Mears II tenor.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 02, 2009 12:35
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Unusual
clock chimes</DIV>
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<P>The clock chime at Canterbury Cathedral, which is based on the 8th
Gregorian Chant and was composed in 1899 by the Cathedral's Precentor,
Canon F.J.O. Helmore (who was also a very fine ringers by all accounts) to
commemorate the 1,300th (if memory serves me correct) anniversary of St
Augustine landing in Kent. The whole chime is topped off by the
magnificent sound of Great Dunstan - probably the best sounding 18th
century bell in Britain (that statement should set a debate
going!).<BR><BR>Richard<BR><BR><BR><BR><B>On Mon Nov 2 6:50 , 'Mark Regan'
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