[Bell Historians] Baldrick - was Tuning forks

[edward martin]

Hello
my copy of the older edition of the OED has
"4: The leather-gear with its apurtenances, by which the clapper of a church
bell was suspended. Obs." but I always thought (with no memorable evidence
in support) that it was a leather washer between the top of the clapper and
the inside of the bell



On 4/19/06, La Greenall <eldeworth at FCXe5UvdyYIOypcYKlBy_rjpYVh342eMb8gH4ub7jyf9JzDwEf32NqJysOqlVsPl97Y01HEQg44nXNQY.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> What is/was a "baldric" please, in relation to church bells? I've found
> a mention of one in my local churchwardens' accounts for 1626, and
> beyond adapting the standard dictionary definition of an ornate belt
> worn over one shoulder, I wonder what it could refer to?
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> The entry:
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> "Item for iiii keyes and a boult for the baldricke for the fourth
> Bell... 0-1-0"
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> Cheers, Lawrence, Waltham Abbey.
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> Don't suppose clappers were once called blackadders were they?
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> > Subject: RE: [Bell Historians] SG/WI - was Tuning forks
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> > Clapper indentation is a different issue and is much more
> > dependent on the way the ball hits the bell than the material.
> > the old baldric...
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