Stockport St George

[Richard Offen]

One of the bells (I think the
> 9th) had been rehung on ball-bearings quite a while ago, in the
> recent rehang they were all done together.

New headstock and bearings in 1971 if I remember correctly.

> Subsequent to the rehang, a lightweight roof was built above the
> bells to keep the weather off. Previously, when left up, they used to
> fill with rain or snow in bad weather. Whether this changed the sound
> of the bells I am unsure.
>
> To analyse is to destroy: I used to think these were smashing bells
> to listen to, especially from the road outside. When I recorded and
> analysed them recently they turned out, from a tuning perspective, to
> be a bit of a rough old lot.
>


Just goes to show (Jim Philips will love me saying this!) that
theoretical perfection, isn't always everything!   Has the fact that you
now know the figures for this ring don't stack up well changed your
aural opinion of them?

As CD said, "a fine ring if you like that sort of thing!"

Richard

           
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