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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Unringable deadroped three (full circle wheels) up
the road at North Burlingham. I must go and see them again. All
pre-Refomation bells too I believe.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Paul Cubitt</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 10, 2011 4:04 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Deadrope
Ringing</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Yes, Steve - correct on both counts!
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">1. Tying a cord round at "ten to"
(modern garter-hole position) is what we used to do - and what
Tintinnalogia recommends.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">2. The half-wheel in the Wiki diagram
is based on an ancient wheel (at Dunchideock, Devon) illustrated in C19 books
by Lukis and Ellacombe, and the rope does indeed come off past the 12 o'clock
position - but still with enough draw on the pulley to give a small handstroke
pull</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">To elaborate a bit more on my point
about the need for more research, the key thing is this. Even by the C19
half-wheels were already very rare - and noted as of special interest and
significance - and much of what we know about the evolution of wheels and
full-circle ringing come from literary (Tintinalogia) and documentary sources
(as discussed in detail in <FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><EM>Change
Ringing, The History of an English Art </EM>and in the Jennings book on
<EM>British Bellfittings</EM>). But there hasn't been enough research based on
field-work, and largely because people like me have failed to take adequate
note of how bells with old fittings are
<STRONG>roped</STRONG>!</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">My feeling is that a) too much emphasis
has been placed on part-wheels, and b) not enough has been made of the
surviving evidence of full-wheels with "top garter holes". It's certainly
worth looking out and studying the remaining deadrope installations before too
many more of them disappear. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">CP</FONT></DIV>
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