[Bell Historians] Clappers

[matthewhigby at a...]

In a message dated 29/04/03 14:24:51 GMT Daylight Time, djb122 at y... 
writes:


> Most people seem to agree that
> as we leave the bells up it is probably better all round not to have a
> counterbalance - hopefully omitting this will make the bell go and sound
> a bit better. 

The counterbalance has recently been removed from the tenor clapper at Bow, & 
the result is that the bell is a lot quieter than it used to be.

Wells Cathedral tenor clapper is an E&S SG product (Non counterbalanced) and 
has been going strong for (15+ years). Personally my vote would be to go for 
EN16 - is it really heavier than SG?

Matthew



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