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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">A (non-ringing) friend spotted on the <i>
Mirfield Auction</i> website a set of handbells. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">It seems to me rather strange to have a straight diatonic 15, two octaves with no semitones - too many for change ringing and no accidentals which makes most tunes unsatisfactory. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">"<span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: futura-pt, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Set of 15 hand bells from Mears of London in very good condition, contained in a magnificent wooden trunk. The donor supplied
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The box of hand-bells, 2 octaves in E minor (or major(?)) most probably acquired by my Grandfather, all his life a country parson in Lincolnshire, ordained Priest, I think, by Bp Wordsworth around 1880, died just after Easter at home in 1918: for 8 years a
curate in Sleaford, then Vicar of North Summercoates, then of Kettlethorpe, made Canon under Bp Edward King. My Grandmother lived in Sleaford. Somewhere there he may have found the bells."</p>
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