[Bell Historians] Reader Enquiry

[Mike Chester]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "David Bryant" 
<David.Bryant at ...> wrote:
> The Tsar Kolokol, isn't it?

Yes and no! It is the biggest bell in the world but it is broken and 
unhung.

http://www.russianbells.com/interest/biggest.html

or directly to 

http://www.russianbells.com/interest/biglist.html

Statest that the second biggest bell, and therefore the largest bell 
that is use for its intended purpose, is at Pingdingshan, Henan, 
China with a weight of 255,200lbs (116 metric tonnes
0, it being cast as recently as 2000.

Picture at

http://www.russianbells.com/interest/big/luckybell.html

Mike