Taylors 1895-97

[Susan Dalton]

Just three postscripts on this.

First, as Nick Bowden has already pointed out, Reddish was not a complete
new ring in 1897. (The earlier, back two, bells even still had wooden
stocks on them when I visited.)

Second, the ring of six at Tushingham which Mr Higson now thinks should
usurp Norton as the first Taylor true-harmonic ring, is indeed good - or so
I thought on both visits there. (The bells could do with rehanging,
though.)

Third, note how close to true-harmonic the present fourth bell at
Clungunford, Shropshire, was in 1895: nominal D - 26, fundamental D - 46,
hum D - 31, (tierce F +/- 0). I believe this was a Taylor stock bell sold
to Clungunford in that year to replace a cracked one. Certainly it
demonstrates that Taylors had got the shape of a bell of this size, at
least, about right already by then. If Andrew is still sitting in his
office twiddling his thumbs - joke - it would be good to have the month in
1895 that this bell was cast. Certainly it didn't benefit from the new
tuning machine.

C D