[Bell Historians] Tubular chimes

[Robert Lewis]

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At 14:59 05/10/2005, you wrote:
>At 18:53 04/10/2005, Dave Kelly wrote:
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> >We (Keltek Trust) have had an enquiry for a tubular chime. Are there any
> >companies still casting tubular bells? We did manage to re-locate a couple
> >of sets of Harrington's chimes to Western Australia year or so ago but do
> >not know of any which are available for re-use.
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>Orchestras use scaled-down versions of these things, so presumably someone,
>somewhere is still producing them on a commercial basis.
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>Also I recall seeing an advert in a clock magazine a couple of years ago
>for replacement tubular chimes for Edwardian long-case clocks. Companies
>like G&J, Elliots and Benson made quite a lot of Whittington/St
>Michael/Westminster (8/9) tubular bell chiming clocks in the early 1900s,
>which can now command remarkably high prices at auction (sometimes £5-9k).
>But quite often they are missing one or more tubes which, like pendulums,
>weights and other easily detachable bits often get lost in storage or
>transit. A missing or partial set of tubes reduces the value of one of
>these clocks considerably.
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