[Bell Historians] Castlemorton

[jimhedgcock <jameshedgcock@h...>]

There is a 1948 Taylor treble on the front of an old five at Bilton, 
Rugby.
I never thought that this fitted well.
Perhaps Mike Chester/Chris Pickford will know if anything was done to 
the old five when they were restored and augmented or was any 
attempt made to blend in the new treble?--

- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "David Bryant" <djb122 at y...> 
wrote:
> Chris Povery wrote:
> 
> > Castlemorton may have sounded odd, but probably not quite as odd 
as a ring
> of 6 near me. Toddington, Glos, had a
> > complete ring of 5 by Thomas Rudhall, dated 1773, until 1909, 
when Taylors
> merely added a new treble in a new upper
> > frame. This bell must be Harmonically-tuned, because it and the
> Rudhall-tuned back 5 do not mix. I have never stayed long
> > enough there to find out! It takes a long time to get even 
partially used
> to this ring. It is very hard on the ears, particularly if > one is 
lucky
> enough to be used to some of Taylors' finest offerings. Have you 
any tonal
> analyses of these bells, David
> > (Bagley)?
> 
> If its of 1909 the treble is sure to be harmonically tuned. At 
Angersleigh
> near Taunton there was a similar situation, where Taylor's added a 
treble to
> an old four in 1911, which didn't match at all. The bells were 
restored in
> the mid-1990s, and the treble removed and replaced with two second-
hand C&G
> Mears bells. They've made a very pleasant-sounding old-style six. 
The 1911
> treble was sold to Freshfored, near Bath, as the treble of six. The 
treble
> of the five was a 1930s Taylor bell, and the back four Taylor's 
1885. I
> clearly remember seeing the tenor during the work and noticing that 
it was
> maiden. I'm pretty sure they were all tuned at Whitechapel, 
although don't
> know how well the 1885 bells tuned up.
> 
> David