[Bell Historians] Light rings (was 4-cwt eights)

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Richard Offen wrote......
>>Is this why, in quite a number of Taylor's larger rings, it is hard work 
to strike the little bells over the large ones (and for the tenors to have 
to pull off in front of the trebles in order to strike over them). 
Compared to Leighton Buzzard, for instance, the trebles at Canterbury are 
a doddle to ring and strike properly (I've rung peals on the treble at 
both)! <<

Good to hear from you Richard. 

Just wonderd if this is a problem with the back bells rather than the 
front bells. We have this problem at Ripon (1933 Taylor) and in many 
respects our bells handle like a much heavier ring given the amount of 
space the trebles need to leave the tenors and visa versa. We have done 
some analysis of the swing rates to try to understand what is going on, 
the figures show a good linear slowing of the swing rates over the front 6 
and then a very drastic non linear slowing of the swing rates from 7 
through to 10. I'm afraid I don't have the figures to hand but I would 
have thought a linear change across the entire ring is the ideal. 

Regarding tower accoustics I'm pretty sure the York ringers tried to 
create internal spaces similar in proportion to those at Abergavenny when 
installing the ring at St Wilfrids York. Just wondered if David has any 
more details........ Also as, an observation more than anything else, I 
have a preference for rings in a "black note" key. For me Eb sounds 
better than E, F# better than F etc. Hard to describe why but to my ears 
"back note" rings seem to have a more cheerful quality around the front 
and and an edge around the back which the "white note" rings lack. This 
may be simply because I learnt on a very fine 15cwt F# 8 but just wondered 
if anyone else had noticed anything similar.

Cheers

Martin

Martin Davies
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