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Seage equipment I've seen has been in Scotland. I remember
seeing a set in Glasgow (Episc) Cathedral and the Devon article confirms
this. I think I've seen it in at least one other tower there, possibly
Paisley. As both towers have Taylor bells it seems to me likely that they
had a hand in recommending, if not installing it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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class=671073818-05092011> </SPAN>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>John Harrison<BR><B>Sent:</B> 05 September 2011
18:32<BR><B>To:</B> Bell Historians<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Silent
practice apparatus<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT>
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<P>This came up on ChangeRingers, but no one there gave an
authoritative<BR>answer about the pedigree. Maybe the historians will
know.<BR><BR>I have always believed that Seage's apparatus, aka ting tangs,
were a<BR>single species, but it turns out that they are not. The
mechanism<BR>invented by Epaphras Seage in Devon, and installed in several
Devon towers<BR>is shown about 4/5 down the page here: <BR><A
href="http://groups.exeter.ac.uk/gdr/rrd/mar08/rrd.html">http://groups.exeter.ac.uk/gdr/rrd/mar08/rrd.html</A><BR><BR>The
mechanisms installed in several Berkshire towers, notably Twyford
where<BR>they are intact and working, are operated by a chain round the
headstock,<BR>rather than a rocker arm. Alistair Donaldson and I recently took
pictures,<BR>which you can see at:<BR><BR>You can see the mechanism at:<BR><A
href="http://jaharrison.me.uk/Temp/SilentPractMech.jpg">http://jaharrison.me.uk/Temp/SilentPractMech.jpg</A>
<BR><BR>The chain hooks onto a loop on the bell side of the headstock, seen
with<BR>the bell up at: <BR><BR><A
href="http://jaharrison.me.uk/Temp/SilentPractHSUp.jpg">http://jaharrison.me.uk/Temp/SilentPractHSUp.jpg</A>
<BR><BR>To disengage the mechanism, unhook the chain and hook it onto the
adjacent<BR>loop on the bell frame, see with the bell down at:<BR><BR><A
href="http://jaharrison.me.uk/Temp/SilentPractHSDown.jpg">http://jaharrison.me.uk/Temp/SilentPractHSDown.jpg</A>
<BR><BR>David Sullivan suggested that this might have been a Whitechapel
design,<BR>installed before the first war. Can anyone confirm or deny that?
And are<BR>these the only two variants, or are there
others?<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>-- <BR>John Harrison<BR>Website <A
href="http://jaharrison.me.uk">http://jaharrison.me.uk</A><BR></P></DIV><!-- end group email --></BODY></HTML>