[Bell Historians] Valletta

[David Bryant]

> I was in Valetta a few Christmases ago and chimed the bells - plain hunt
> on six - on Christmas Eve. Unfortunately the verger didn't have time to
> take me up to see the bells. They are chimed from a baton clavier with
> widely spaced keys all made of metal. Nice big tower! To my ear they
> sounded really rather good and must surely have been retuned if not
recast.

Wasn't there a picture of them in the RW a few years back? If I remember it
correctly, the clavier was used to 'clock' them with their ringing clappers,
and they still hung on their ringing headstocks although most of the other
fittings had disappeared.

David