[Bell Historians] FW: Light Front Bells

[David Bryant]

Exeter are a special case though - they're over-tenored by about half a
ton!

David

> Stuart Hutchieson wrote:
> 
> I was interested in the comments about light trebles & knocked up the
> enclosed ss. Lightest trebles (treble as a % of tenor) are Exeter 9.16
> Ipswich 11.46 Liverpool Cathedral 11.54 Waltham Abbey 11.76 Redcliffe
> 12.08. Heaviest are Broughton 24.02 Toronto 26.10 Melbourne Derbys
> 26.15 Grundisburgh 27.64 Newport IOW 28.76. Appleton, Dougles & South
> Croydon are guesses and mini-rings are not included (Southampton =
> 46.67%!) Clearly several heavier rings have proportionately lighter
> trebles & vice versa but there is quite a lot of variation. Probably
> as much to do with heavy tenors....
> 
> Stuart
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Bryant
> To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 11:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] FW: Light Front Bells
> 
> Waltham Abbey and Shrewsbury (both 1914, although at Waltham
> some old bells were reused) have light front ends, with
> trebles under 5 cwt. Pontefract have proportionally the
> lightest front end of any Taylor ring I know of. I agreee
> they're superb!
> 
> Taylor's front ends of tens and 12s were at their lightest
> from about 1910 until 1920, although not all bells cast in
> this period have light front ends, perhaps surprisingly. In
> the early 1920s they went to the other extreme, and rings
> such as Oldham (1922) have quite heavy front ends.
> 
> David
> 
> Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
> ADVERTISEMENT
> 
> 
> 
> This message was sent to you via the Bell Historians' Mailing List. To
> unsubscribe from the list send an email to
> bellhistorians-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com
> 
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
> 
> Name: Weights of trebles vs
> tenors of 12s.xls
> Weights of trebles vs tenors of 12s.xls Type: Microsoft Excel Worksheet
> (application/vnd.ms-excel)
> Encoding: base64
> Download Status: Not downloaded with message