<div dir="auto">Thanks Ken. I hadn't ventured beyond the photo page. Clearly a Gillett installation, completed in 1893. No, they wouldn't have taken the bells away for tuning at that date (not until about 1907).<div>I did find that the work done in 1965 was authorised by Archdeacon's Certificate (not a full faculty) so must have been fairly limited</div><div>Chris<br><div><br>Sent from my Huawei phone</div></div></div><div style="line-height:1.5"><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Tetbury, Gloucestershire<br>From: Ken Webb <ken44webb@gmail.com><br>To: bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk<br>CC: <br><br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
<p>The link from the photo provided by Bill states G&J were paid
£200 for the bell work in the 1890's (& carried out work re
the clock etc.)<br />
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<p><a href="https://tetburychurch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Have-you-heard-the-bells.pdf">Have-you-heard-the-bells.pdf
(tetburychurch.co.uk)</a></p>
<p>Were they machine tuning bells then?<br />
</p>
<p>Ken<br />
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<div>On 22/02/2022 07:25,
<a href="mailto:bill@hibberts.co.uk">bill@hibberts.co.uk</a> wrote:<br />
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<p>These bells are described in Church Bells
of Gloucestershire as ‘seven largest bells maiden bells,
treble with skirting’, and the back 7 (Rudhall 1722) are
marked as historically important, presumably because they are
maiden. I was looking at the nominal figures of these bells as
part of a project I am doing, and wonder whether in fact the
back 7 have been tuned.</p>
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<p>Arguments in favour of tuning are:</p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li style="margin-left:0cm">The back 7
nominal frequencies are correct to within 3.5 cents of a
temperament favoured by Taylors from the 1890s on</li><li style="margin-left:0cm">The bells
hang in a frame which is probably Taylors 1891</li><li style="margin-left:0cm">The bell in
this photograph <a href="https://tetburychurch.co.uk/have-you-heard-the-church-bells-yet-this-year-or-the-church-clock-striking-out-the-passing-of-time/">https://tetburychurch.co.uk/have-you-heard-the-church-bells-yet-this-year-or-the-church-clock-striking-out-the-passing-of-time/</a>
may have a band of tuning just below the clapper scar</li></ul>
<p> </p>
<p>Arguments against tuning are:</p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li style="margin-left:0cm">The treble
is stretched by 35 cents (but perhaps wasn’t tuned if it had
previously been skirted?)</li><li style="margin-left:0cm">The
information in CBOG, arising from a visit on 20/8/1979 by
Mary Bliss and AJC (Tony Cox?).</li></ul>
<p> </p>
<p>I think the bells weren’t tuned when worked
on by Taylors in 1965, as the tuning marks would have been
relatively fresh in 1979.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Does anyone have any better knowledge of
this?</p>
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<p>Regards,</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Bill H</p>
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