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Bill<div><br></div><div>Quickest way would be to ask someone at JT (probably CJP) to have a look at the job/tuning book information or lack thereof. Had a similar enquiry recently that was resolved in exactly that fashion. </div><div><br></div><div>Andrew<br><br><br><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 07:26, bill@hibberts.co.uk wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv7081535347"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv7081535347WordSection1"><p class="yiv7081535347MsoNormal">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><p class="yiv7081535347MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv7081535347MsoNormal">Arguments in favour of tuning are:</p><ul style="margin-top:0cm;" type="disc"><li style="margin-left:0cm;" class="yiv7081535347MsoListParagraph">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;" class="yiv7081535347MsoListParagraph">The bells hang in a frame which is probably Taylors 1891</li><li style="margin-left:0cm;" class="yiv7081535347MsoListParagraph">The bell in this photograph <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" 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 class="yiv7081535347MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv7081535347MsoNormal">Arguments against tuning are:</p><ul style="margin-top:0cm;" type="disc"><li style="margin-left:0cm;" class="yiv7081535347MsoListParagraph">The treble is stretched by 35 cents (but perhaps wasn’t tuned if it had previously been skirted?)</li><li style="margin-left:0cm;" class="yiv7081535347MsoListParagraph">The information in CBOG, arising from a visit on 20/8/1979 by Mary Bliss and AJC (Tony Cox?).</li></ul><p class="yiv7081535347MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv7081535347MsoNormal">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 class="yiv7081535347MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv7081535347MsoNormal">Does anyone have any better knowledge of this?</p><p class="yiv7081535347MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv7081535347MsoNormal">Regards,</p><p class="yiv7081535347MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv7081535347MsoNormal">Bill H</p><p class="yiv7081535347MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Bell-historians mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" 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><br><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div>
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