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

[Richard Offen]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "David Bryant" <david at b...> 
wrote:
> > It could well be that the tenors have been 'tucked up' to much in
> > order to make them easier to ring - as Mark Regan says, they may 
be
> > easy to ring, but very difficult to strike. It would be 
interesting
> > to do some comparative experiments.
> 
> I find that many such bells pendulum beautifully on their own, but 
have to
> be really driven in when being rung with the others, making them 
hard work.
> A good recent examples is the tenor at St Wilfrid's York, although 
in this
> case I think it is caused by the bell being much longer-waisted 
than the
> others rather than by being tucked up more.
> 
> David

I rang St Wilfrid's tenor to a quarter of York S. Royal last 
November, but didn't find it at all sluggish (mind you, knowing me, I 
probably wasn't rushing!), but I know what David means. All Saints' 
Maidstone are a good example where faster speeds are much more 
comfortable than slow, which means pushing the tenor quite hard - 
something that dear old Tom Cullingworth used to do with consumate 
ease!

R