Mancroft retuning

[Bill Hibbert]

Jim Hedgecock:

> Mancroft were tuned by Taylors the tenor from 40 2 21 to 37 3 15.

David Bryant has done a thorough investigation of this (I think it 
appears on his Bells of Norwich pages) and presents a good argument 
that most of the bells were not tuned. He proposes that the weight 
loss is due to canon removal and drilling of the crowns.

The tenor and 11th nominals are exactly 200 cents apart, which is 
suspicious, it suggests the tenor might have been tuned in modern 
times. The rest of the tuning figures look pretty original to me. When 
I was up there, I didn't actually look inside the bells . . .

Bill H