[Bell Historians] Charlton Adam, Somerset

[davidhird_uk]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Richard Offen" 
<richard.offen at ...> wrote:
 
> It was cracked and was welded by Soundweld in the early 1970s - 
hardly 
> likely to have been a hugely expensive job.   If I remember 
correctly, 
> it was a fifteenth century bell by a London founder, which was, 
> uncharacteristically for that particular founder, very poorly 
toned.   
> I seem to remember that we decided it had probably sounded as bad 
> before it cracked as after welding.
> 
> I don't think you could say that the welding process was 
particularly 
> destructive.
> 
> Perhaps other things have happened to the bell since then. 
> R

It is still there now with a lever in it's old pit. It still sounds 
terrible and doesn't even chime properly.

David