[Bell Historians] Re: Washington

[jimhedgcock]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Neil Skelton" <neil.tcct at ...> 
wrote:
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> Perhaps Nigel Taylor can solve the problem for us?

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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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Chester" <mike at ...>
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:23 AM
> Subject: [Bell Historians] Re: Washington
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> > --- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "jimhedgcock"
> > <jameshedgcock@> 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.
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> > Mike
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