[Bell Historians] Gloucester Cathedral

[Richard Offen]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "David Bryant" <davidbryant at ...> 
wrote:
>
> > Does anybody have the tuning figures (nominals will suffice) for
> Gloucester Cathedral?
> 
> I've looked in the likely places on the web and they aren't there - 
as you
> have probably already done, too. I would surmise from this that 
Whitechapel
> never released them into the public domain.
> 
> David 

Not quite correct in my experience.   They will give their tuning 
figures out, but usually only to those who have a genuine need for 
them.    

I'm sure both Nigel Taylor at Whitechapel and Andrew Higson at 
Loughborough will testify that one can waste an awful lot of time 
rummaging back through tuning books simply to satisfy people's desire 
to collect data for no particular reason except for the sake of having 
it!

Finished tuning figures are in the public domain anyway, as they can be 
easily logged from the bells themselves - even when they are cracked (I 
assume the eleventh at Gloucester is the main reason for the 
request!).    I'm sure those in authority at Gloucester Cathedral would 
be readily furnished with the figures, if they requested them.

Richard