[Bell Historians] Petham, Kent

[Alan Andrews]

I believe three of the bells are maidens, perhaps Dickon knows which  
ones they are as I can't remember...

Cheers,
Alan


On 26 Mar 2007, at 22:16, Dickon Love wrote:

>
> The inscriptions on these bells are all rather bland and generic  
> which suggests that they were perhaps cast before they were  
> destined for Petham. The old bells were destroyed by fire in 1922  
> and the new bells came along remarkably quickly!
>
> I know a little about this place - it is where I was taught to  
> ring, where I rang my first peal(s) and where my father was Rector.  
> (I'd be interested in a copy of your recording Bill.)
>
> DrL
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com  
> [mailto:bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bill Hibbert
> Sent: 26 March 2007 21:52
> To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Bell Historians] Petham, Kent
>
> I was analysing the tuning of All Saints, Petham, Kent this evening,
> as you do. This 1923 six is said to be the first 'Simpson'-tuned peal
> from the Whitechapel foundry. However, although the bells have a
> lovely warm hummy sound, they are best described, as regards true-
> harmonic tuning, as a valiant but failed try.
>
> Both hums and primes vary uniformly from slightly sharp in the tenors
> to somewhat flat in the trebles. Clearly an experimental ring: M&S
> had got the hums down, but overshot in the trebles (treble hum is 25
> cents flat), and the primes are moderately old-style (treble prime is
> 55 cents flat). The nominals are stretched, by 17 cents in the treble
> of six. In my recording of all six in changes, the twanginess of the
> trebles can be heard.
>
> The actual tuning figures in Hz for those who care are:
> treble: 392, 770.5, 938, 1256.5, 1590.5, 2369.5, 3236.5
> 2nd: 349.5, 689, 834, 1119, 1413, 2110, 2891.5
> 3rd: 315, 618.5, 743.5, 972.5, 1248.5, 1860.5, 2553.5
> 4th: 290, 588, 695.5, 895, 1171, 1750, 2407
> 5th: 264.5, 530.5, 629.5, 820.5, 1055.5, 1578, 2173.5
> tenor: 235, 471, 558.5, 723.5, 936.5, 1399.5, 1922.5
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill H
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Cheers,
Alan