[Bell Historians] Re: Washington

[Neil Skelton]

Re the cathedral. Weights concur with those in the bells section of 'Music
at Washington Cathedral' (no date but prob c.1979).

Neil Skelton.

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From: "Mike Chester" <mike at jQX-yfYZfquTTRihe7jFYye0Zd6jOjlJPEqsu7OXiylmu20gjuOEtWCaM981GZb6-znKx_nUZNFIM610ftOiQQukGqU.yahoo.invalid>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:23 AM
Subject: [Bell Historians] Re: Washington


> --- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "jimhedgcock"
> <jameshedgcock at ...> wrote:
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> > --- The weights I have are :-
> > OPO
> >  5  0  2, 5  2  3, 5  1  3, 5  2  1, 6  2  4, 8  2  1,  11  2  11,
> 13
> > 1  10, 19  0  16, 26  1  3.
> > A
> > Cath. 608, 627, 712, 722, 851, 1071, 1450, 1733, 2320, 3588lbs.
> > Any corrections most welcome.
> >
> >This is what you will find on the Washington Ringers' Website @
> http://www.cathedral.org/wrs/wrs.htm
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> These are the figures that have caused the confusion.  The weights
> given in pounds on the page do not compute to the weights given in
> Cwt-Qtr-Lbs.  For instance, the 2953lbs given for the tenor at OPO
> computes exactly to the currently accepted weight of 26-1-13 and not
> the 26-1-3 given on the website.
>
> Mike
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