[Bell Historians] heavy tenors

[jimhedgcock]

--- Both old and modern bell founders have not always been totally 
honest in describing the weights of the bells that they have 
supplied. After all, what do you do to check their honesty? The most 
recent 'angel's share' was Leeds Parish Church, but there are many 
others.
The 'angel's share' is the loss by evaporation when whisky is 
maturing. I think it is a good comparison for tenors losing weight in 
the tower!
Jim

In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "A Willis" <zen16073 at z...> wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Pickford [mailto:c.j.pickford at t...]
> Sent: 28 October 2003 23:40
> To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] heavy tenors
> 
> 
> I rather suspect an exaggerated contemporary weight at 
Warminster - the
> weight 27-2-13 coming from the church records at the time the bell 
was
> installed in 1737. The bells were rehung by Bowell in 1914 and the 
canons
> may have been removed them. Mears & Stainbank rehung and retuned 
them in
> 1960
> [A Willis]
> 
> The weight is in a copy of the contract, in the churchwardens' 
accounts,
> so I would hope it was correct .
> Anne Willis
> 
> 1737
> 
> Memorandum November 2nd 1737. The new Tenor Bell cast by Abel 
Rudhall at
> Gloucester was hung up in the
> 
> c qrs lb lb
> 
> tower; weight 27 2 13 or 3093
> 
> 
> 
> The agreement for casting this bell was made on the second day of 
July
> 1737, between Abel Rudhall and
> 
> 
> new
> 
> John French Churchwarden, after the following articles: Abel 
Rudhall to
> deliver the bell at Bristol, sound and tuneable, at fourteen 
Pence and
> three farthings for every Pound weight; to ?new clapper the new 
bell and to
> have the old clapper; to find and pay a man to hang up the new Bell 
in the
> Tower, the Parishioners finding the material for the doing of it; 
And to
> warrent the bell sound and good for Twelve Months and one Day after 
the same
> shall be hung up in the tower. John French to deliver the old bell 
at
> Bristol, at twelve Pence for every Pound weight, and to pay the sd  
Abel
> Rudhall the Difference of the Acct at the Expiration of the twelve 
months
> and one day mentioned above.
> 
> 
> 
> New bell wd 3093 at 14¾d per lb
> £190:1: 9
> 
> Old Bell wd 2815 at 12d per lb
> 140:15:0
> 
> 
> 49 : 6: 9
> 
> Disbursed
> £ s d
> 
> Paid for help in taking down the Tenor Bell
> 2 6
> 
> Expences in going to Gloucester to se the Bell wd and settle the
> conditions of
> 
> sending it to Warmr
> 12 -
> 
> For help to draw up the Tenor
> 2 -
> 
> John Butler the Bell Hanger for Expedition
> 1 3
> 
> Mr Rudhall for casting the Tenor Bell
> 49 6 9