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<p>The present silence, if it is still operative, has lasted more than five years. One wonders why the bell was put there and why alternative mechanisms have been sought. </p><p><em>It would appear to have been a waste of money. Who paid for it?</em></p> <div class="ygroups-quoted" style="display:none;"><br><br>---In bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com, <davidl.cawley@...> wrote:<br><br><div id="ygrps-yiv-759142010">Apparently the chains suffer from exposure to the extremes of Mediterranean <br>
sea air .....hence the present silence. The Seige Bell cast by John Taylor <br>
Bellfounders Ltd in 1992 is 8' 8" diameter and weighed 235-2-24 as cast, <br>
after tuning the despatched weight is 214-2-3; Nominal Frequency 314, <br>
musical note Eb.<br>
<br>
It is the 2nd heaviest of these four 8' 8" bells from Loughborough, Great <br>
Peter of York (1927) being slightly heavier; Washington Carillon Bass (1962) <br>
and Ann Arbor, Michigan Bass (1935) being a little lighter. Interestingly, <br>
The Seige Bell is the sharpest of the four, Washington next (310.8), Ann <br>
Arbor (308) then Great Peter is 304.5. Andrew Higson gave me these and other <br>
details back in 1993 when I was preparing a RW article on Great George of <br>
Bristol, at that time being rehung by Taylors.<br>
<br>
No, the St Elena bell is large but by no means the largest in the world <br>
hanging in a church tower - I think that the late Alan Blair would have soon <br>
put her right on that one. There are still some mighty great bells hanging <br>
in Russian church towers, and I gather that the Russian founders are hard at <br>
work producing more of them. As to swinging bells, I think that the St <br>
Peter's Bell in Cologne (Koln) takes the palm - it is in fact the largest of <br>
a diatonic nine of various dates, inbcluding two huge medieval ones, <br>
Preciosa and Speciosa<br>
<br>
DLC</div>
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