Call for papers on ... bell-casting?

[Nick Bowden]

Richard Offen writes:
> T.C. Lewis was a very fine organ builder with organs such as the ones 
> in Southwark and Ripon Cathedrals to his credit.    
> 
> His bells are quite interesting in tone (the rings at Kingbury and 
> Shipbourne spring to mind and the light chime at Keston) - he would 
> never countenance any form of tuning as he maintained breaking the 
> skin of a bell somehow marred its tone. 
>

Although he tuned the treble (and 2nd?) at Heythrop, Oxon.
Nick