<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp6d125588yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">That's just as true on this side of the Atlantic!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I joined the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC) and its <span>Tower Clock Chapter</span> several years ago in hopes of finding more information about the bells associated with tower clocks (as they are called over here). I quickly discovered that most "clock people" (there are also "watch people" in NAWCC) knew a lot about the striking trains in such clocks but very little about what was at the distant end of the pull wire. I've stayed with it (and become the Chapter's Webmaster) to try to bridge the gap (and because tower clocks are such fascinating machinery); but it's a slow process.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Cross-links between the AHSTCG database and "future Dove" would certainly be the preferable route for connecting clock data with bell data. Example:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> AHSTCG: "hour bell - see Dove for details [link]"</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> Dove: "#8 is the hour bell for a turret clock - see AHSTCG for details [link]"<br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp6d125588signature"><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Carl Scott Zimmerman, Campanologist <br>Saint Louis, Missouri, USA -<br> - 19th c. home of at least 37 bell founders or resellers <br>Tel. +1(314)821-8437 <br>Webmaster for www.TowerBells.org<br> * Avocation: tower bells<br> * Recreation: handbells<br><div> * Mission: church bells</div><div><span class="ydpb3b8dea8pasted-link"><span class="ydp73140da6pasted-link">Webmaster for www.TSCChapter134.org</span></span><br></div></div></div></div>
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On Tuesday, July 7, 2020, 6:54:15 AM CDT, Chris Pickford via Bell-historians <bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887"><div><div class="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887WordSection1" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div>...<snip>...</div><div class="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">I’d observe that clock people seem to be as reluctant to collect details about bells as bell people are to record information on clocks. <br></span></div><div class="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887MsoNormal" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;"><br></span></div><div class="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887yqt0286533655" id="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887yqtfd97092"></div><div class="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887yqt0286533655" id="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887yqtfd13010"><p class="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;"> </span></p></div><div><p class="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:sans-serif;color:#5B9BD5;"></span></i></b></p><div class="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887yqt0286533655" id="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887yqtfd65844"><b><i>Chris Pickford</i></b></div><p class="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#5B9BD5;">E-mail</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#5B9BD5;"> pickford5040@gmail.com </span></p><div class="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887yqt0286533655" id="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887yqtfd76966"></div></div><div class="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887yqt0286533655" id="ydpfdd9d924yiv7503637887yqtfd31721"><p> <br></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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