[Bell Historians] Canon removal and faculties

[tom blyth]

Thankyou David i totaly agree.

T L Blyth
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bryant" <davidbryant at ...>
To: <bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Canon removal and faculties


>> I though there was a Yahoo Bell Restoration Group for this sort of
>> thing! Have I plugged into the wrong group again?
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> Nobody uses that group, and whenever anyone asks a question on it they
> rarely get an answer so most people tend not to bother now - the people 
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> know about these things are on this list.
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> I don't have a problem with it being discussed on here. It is all part of
> the development of bell hanging techniques and therefore historical.
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> I think what Rod says about tucking bells (usually the tenors of a ring) 
> up
> is correct, and the same seems to equally apply to hanging them out 
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> the trebles). If bells are hung out it slows them down to a certain 
> extent,
> then they start to speed up again. I can think of several twelves where 
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> trebles are hung well out and are extremely fast.
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> Taylor's practice of casting flange tops on the trebles of tens and 12s in
> the earlier twentieth century was no doubt to hang the bells out.
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> David
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