<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Forgive me if I am telling you how to suck eggs, but whilst you are waiting <br>for that publication to appear you might go on the Guild of Devonshire Ringers <br>site then click Exeter Cathedral, Further Ringing Details, then The Rings of<br>Twelve . <br><br>It's quite detailed and may keep you going for a while.<br><br>David<br><br> <br>--- On Mon, 26/7/10, Chris Pickford <c.j.pickford.t21@z9W1BF6wx-ASnIW_ruDeE0cbt9ivN4XHQM7_S_iewwGuJDYRt1kMT-wijlgAJK2CDEkRUmDYCPNZ2ELZ2NPUJd3VIDMwgQeezfM.yahoo.invalid> wrote:<br><br>Richard<br> <br>I tend to use this site for online bell <br>books - http://www.archive. org/search. php?query= subject%3A% 22Bells%22% 20AND%20mediatyp e%3Atexts&page=2 - <br>but the obvious titles for Exeter aren't included.<br> <br>However, the appendices to Ellacombe's <br>"Gloucestershire" http://www.archive. org/details/ churchbellsofglo 00ella - <br>may contain the material you found [Perhaps not. I have
a list of the contents <br>of the extras to "Gloucestershire" and "Somerset" - and a search on "Exeter" <br>drew a blank]<br> <br>After that, the most likely titles <br>are:<br> <br>Ellacombe's The Church Bells of <br>Devon (1870s) - details of Exeter Cathedral bells [a single page <br>I can scan if required]<br> <br>The Ringer’s Guide to the Church Bells of Devon by Charles Pearson (1888) <br> <br>John Scott's pamphlet on the bells of <br>Exeter Cathedral (various printings since the 1960s)<br> <br>Chris Pickford<br> <br><br> ----- Original Message ----- <br> From: <br> Richard <br> Smith <br> To: bellhistorians@ yahoogroups. com <br> <br> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 6:07 PM<br> Subject: [Bell Historians] Exeter <br> cathedral<br> <br> <br> <br> <br>Much to my irritation I've just tipped a cup of coffee all <br>over my <br> desk and rendered illegible the first page of some
<br>notes I'd made on the <br> history of the bells of Exeter <br>cathedral. I can't now read where I got the <br> information <br>from, and I'm hoping someone can help me work this <br> out.<br><br>It was definitely a book or pamphlet that had been scanned <br>and <br> made available on-line (probably through archive.org or <br>Google Books); I <br> think it was from the 19th century. I had <br>used the book to draw up a table <br> showing each recast and <br>augmentation of the bells since the 16th or 17th <br> century, <br>and it was particularly informative about the fact that they <br> <br>had a flat sixth long before the natural sixth suggesting a <br>ring in <br> the Mixolydian mode.<br><br>I've tried searching the obvious on-line archives <br> for <br>likely-looking titles, but have drawn a blank. Can anyone <br>suggest <br> what this book might have been?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>RAS<br><br><br><br> <br> <br><br> <br>
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