[Bell Historians] Wisbech/Stockport

[Susan & Christopher Dalton]

> [CJP:]  Just to echo Andrew Bull's sentiments on Wisbech, which were (as Neil
> Skelton says) previously retuned in the 1930s at Whitechapel.

Feb. 1935 it was.  Quite a lot of tuning was done - e.g. 7th, 8th and 9th
extensively machined on the waist to get the hums down.  Tenor just tuned on
the soundbow.  Tenor lost 22 lb., 9th 53 lb., 8th 45 lb., and so on.

> A fine ring -
> by whatever means they got there! - and predominantly true-harmonic in
> character. I did ring there in 1970, but can't honestly say I have any
> clear recollections of what they were like before the later retuning.

I have - or at least my 1971 notes have.  Whilst concurring generally with
NOS and CJP I have to say that the 9th wasn't terribly good, and the tenor
though good was not spot-on.
>
> Not sure how St.George's Stockport got in this discussion - they're well
> post-1850 (1896-ish from memory), and I think that they were rehung in the
> tower without retuning in the 1980s.

Complete ten by M & S 1896.  Quite fine if you like that sort of thing.

C D