[Bell Historians] Comical Reporting

[David Bryant]

>In my experience, most bellhangers try and do the best job they can,
>but they are not psychic and if they're not told about a problem it's
>rather hard for them to fix!

Indeed. On a number of occasions I've had people grumbling to me that 
so-and-so has rehung their bells with new fititngs and that the bells have 
gone oddstruck after a few months. I have pointed out that this is to be 
expected as things bed in, and asked whether they have contacted the 
bellhanger to request that they sort it out. The answer has always been no.

Many ringers seem to think that once a set of bells is installed they can 
just be left without any maintenance at all.

David