[Bell Historians] Re: G&J Simpson rings

[Arcubus]

The eight at Finedon are interesting G and J front 7 and a Taylor tenor.
Don't know why this happened. The effect is very good. 

Aren't Rochester a G and J 10 in a modern Taylor frame. Does anyone know
the answers to these questions?

Mark 

Mark Regan
Arcubus
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-----Original Message-----
From: Susan & Christopher Dalton [mailto:dalton.family at v...] 
Sent: 05 June 2004 09:18
To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Re: G&J Simpson rings



>From: "Andrew Aspland" <aaspland at y...>

> "Why do we assume that Cyril Johnston copied a Taylor bell? He was a
> pretty clever chap by all accounts."
> It is not just the bell it is the whole installation - later they did 
> go their own way with many designs but the example at Kirkby Malzeard 
> is so like a Taylor installation.
>
[All the early G & J jobs are. Ron Dove once told me that the model for
Johnston's Simpson-tuned bells was the Taylor chime of 8 at Christ
Church Turnham Green, Chiswick. That might account for the very thin
trebles of Johnston's early years (e.g. Wool and Wimborne). CD]

> "...Whitechapel in the early 20s (they took their old style guage 
> which produced bells closest to a Simpson bell and adapted it)?" And 
> never got any closer!
>
> Anon.
>
[1. What is a 'guage'? 2. This is not fair. After a shaky start,
Whitechapel were casting first-class true-harmonic bells by the early
1930s. CD]




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