[Bell Historians] Interesting bells for sale on website

[A Willis]

What is interesting is that Bill Butler makes no mention of hemi-spherical
handbells by Dunn, only ones by Wells of Aldbourne, and James Burrough of
Devizes. Hemisphereical bells were more commonly used as sheep bells, and
there are still people who remember their pleasant sound, as opposed to the
clonk of a nail in a tin which became increasingly common.
AW


Sorry, forgot to say that there is, or was, a hemispherical bell in the
ringing chamber at Midhurst.
AW