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<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px">My page about this chime (see <a href="http://www.towerbells.org/data/MACAMBCC.HTM">http://www.towerbells.org/data/MACAMBCC.HTM</a>) has a link to an old drawing of the bells set up in the foundry, with some commentary. Could Andrew and/or Chris comment on how the actual installation compares with that?<div> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483256789362_6338" class="signature">Carl Scott Zimmerman <br>Saint Louis, Missouri, USA -<br> - 19th c. home of at least 36 bell founders or resellers <br>Tel. +1(314)821-8437 <br>Webmaster for www.TowerBells.org<br> * Avocation: tower bells<br> * Recreation: handbells<br> * Mission: church bells</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483256789362_6339" class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483256789362_6344" class="yahoo_quoted"> <blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483256789362_6343" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483256789362_6342" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483256789362_6341" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483256789362_6340" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483256789362_6345" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "'George Dawson' george@gadawson.wanadoo.co.uk [bellhistorians]" <bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 31, 2016 9:53 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Bell Historians] Christ Church Cambridge MA<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483256789362_6351" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv4420819939"><style type="text/css">
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483256789362_6349" class="yiv4420819939WordSection1"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483256789362_6348" class="yiv4420819939MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div id="yiv4420819939ygrp-mlmsg"><div id="yiv4420819939ygrp-msg"><div id="yiv4420819939ygrp-text"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483256789362_6353" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;">George Dawson wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><<Talking of MIT they rang Plain Bob Major at Christ Church Cambridge MA <br clear="none">for graduations in 1981 (RW 19/6/1981, p.528). As the bells in that <br clear="none">church are hung American style, I assume it was on handbells? Anyone <br clear="none">from that area & era remember anything??<<<br clear="none"><br clear="none">There is a chime of 13 bells at Christ Church (Henry Hooper, <br clear="none">1860). They certainly were from a US foundry, but I would have thought <br clear="none">that a chime would have been hung the same anywhere, much like the way a <br clear="none">typical carillon is hung (dead). In the 1980s, at least, they had <br clear="none">something similar to an Ellacombe apparatus. I presume it's still like <br clear="none">that, but I haven't been in the tower in ages. There was a handbell <br clear="none">band made up of parishioners, but there was a lot of overlap between <br clear="none">those ladies and the handbell ringers of the MIT guild. There also were <br clear="none">occasions of change-chiming on the tower bells. The procedure I recall <br clear="none">is that it was treated like handbell ringing - each ringer had a pair of <br clear="none">the cables (?) comparable to a handbell pair. Ringers lined up all in a <br clear="none">row, trying not to bump elbows. I suspect the PB in question was on <br clear="none">handbells, but I will try to track it down. Or you could email me the <br clear="none">names of the ringers, and I could ask one of them.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Laura Dickerson<span style="color:#1F497D;"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483256789362_6355" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Theres no names mentioned in the article!</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">The bells are hung for swing chiming, with heavily balanced headstocks & full wheels but the clappers have loops on the bottom of the flights to connect to the Ellacombe rack. I have photos taken in November by Andrew Mills & chris Woodcock when they passed by.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Any further info is always appreciated.</span></div><div class="yiv4420819939yqt6733008032" id="yiv4420819939yqtfd60854"></div><div class="yiv4420819939yqt6733008032" id="yiv4420819939yqtfd65597"><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"></span></div><div class="yiv4420819939yqt6733008032" id="yiv4420819939yqtfd98775">George</div></div></div></div><div><div class="yiv4420819939MsoNormal"><span style="color:white;"> </span></div></div></div>
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