<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I'll have to plead the classic "I'm away from home at the moment, and thus don't have access to my detailed records." However, the GCNA Website does show that 16 G&J bells remain now (12 from 1925 and 4 from 1931). Since Vanbergen extended the instrument from 72 to 74 bells, they could have supplied at most 58, replacing at most 56 of the original G&J bells.<br><br>I don't remember whether Tim Hurd pulled out any G&J bells when he replaced all of the Vanbergens with Whitechapels. If he did, it was no more than 2 bells, because I'm certain that the number left by Vanbergen was less than 20 - either 18 or 16. So Vanbergen replaced at least 54, and possibly 56.<br><br>Sorry I can't be more helpful at the moment! I'll be back home in a week, and will be able to give a better answer then.<br><br>Carl Scott Zimmerman<br>
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* Mission: church bells<br><br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 3/21/10, George Dawson <i><george@VSpWAQybhs6Sm-raOtMNcO-6dC1HYVL3x33X7oMAIO5w0COmN3uQ9YiTPnMgmOvsnSQ8kWRI4FscD_ejgHbo9ODIg7GIiA.yahoo.invalid></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: George Dawson <george@VSpWAQybhs6Sm-raOtMNcO-6dC1HYVL3x33X7oMAIO5w0COmN3uQ9YiTPnMgmOvsnSQ8kWRI4FscD_ejgHbo9ODIg7GIiA.yahoo.invalid><br>Subject: [Bell Historians] Riverside, New York<br>To: bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<br>Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 9:09 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1769941061">
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<title>Riverside, New York</title><p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">Can anyo</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">ne tell me how many of the original G&J bells were replaced by Van Bergen in 1956</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">.</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">And no the GCNA site does not tell you!.</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">G</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span></p>
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