[Bell Historians] Clapper springs

[Nick Bowden]

> David Cawley:
>
> > Their most favoured and prolific use was of
> > course on steel bells .... They are still
> > present in the unrestored rings ... Chalford
>
> Notes from my visit to Chalford in February 2001:
> They have a typical steel-bell sound, somewhat improved (I was told
> by the tower captain) by having rubber clapper lifters. They were
> originally fitted with clapper-lifting springs which, having fallen
> into disrepair, were replaced by lifters which had been fitted as an
> experiment to a peal of bells in Bristol.
>
> I was told which peal in Bristol but unfortunately did not make a
> note.
>
> Bill H

It was St Ambrose, Whitehall, Bristol. They would have probably been more
effective on a ring with less natural resonance.

Nick