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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hello – many of you will have Bill Butler’s book on handbells – page 36 - 37 says that Robert Wells 1 (1725 – 81) was the first to number handbells, with theories about how he devised the numbering scheme. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5496'>Alison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Bell-historians <bell-historians-bounces@lists.ringingworld.co.uk> <b>On Behalf Of </b>aaspland--- via Bell-historians<br><b>Sent:</b> 28 December 2020 06:08<br><b>To:</b> Bell Historians Mailing List <bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk><br><b>Cc:</b> aaspland@yahoo.co.uk<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bell Historians] Warner handbell numbering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don't think 15 C is a measure as such just a numbering system starting at high C being 1 C (which is about as high as a handbell ought to go - to paraphrase Oklahoma). <o:p></o:p></p><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1609135668149"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Andrew<o:p></o:p></p><div id="ymail_android_signature"><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6D00F6'>On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 at 23:10, Dickon Love<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6D00F6'><<a href="mailto:dickon@lovesguide.com">dickon@lovesguide.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div style='border:none;border-left:solid #6D00F6 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 15.0pt;margin-top:7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Bell-historians mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk">Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a><br><a href="https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians" target="_blank">https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>