[Bell Historians] Tune or re-cast?

[David Bryant]

If you've got the chance re-cast them, particularly as several of them are
damaged anyway. Even after tuning, they will never be as good as a new ring.

David
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From: "Izabelle Thompson" <i.a.thompson at d...>
To: <bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:31 AM
Subject: [Bell Historians] Tune or re-cast?


> We are currently thinking about restoring the bells at Brancepeth and
> are undecided as to what to do. After the fire, 3 need recasting, and
> the remaining 5 have been shot-blasted and 2 of these have been 'tonally
> dulled'. They are a Taylor's eight of 1889 and, according to local
> ringers, never sounded very nice. We have asked Taylor's for quotes to
> recast 3 bells and tune the rest (removing the canons), and also to
> recast all 8. Taylor's are apparently not keen to recast them all as
> the bells are pre-Simpson tuned, with some of the harmonics out, and
> they wish to correct the harmonics and tune the new bells in a similar
> way to produce an 'old sounding ring'. We're not sure what the best
> thing to do is, but have heard that some other jobs where they have
> tried to do something similar with tuning haven't produced very good
> results (no examples were given). Do anyone have any advice on what we
> should do?
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> Izabelle Thompson (DUSCR Master)
>
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