[Bell Historians] Re: Reading the national bell register

[David Willis]

I would like to be able to supply the details but i live in Barnstaple
now . However , I shall ask the local folk if they have the kit to record
all the bells .
 
Sonning was , I believe , in 1912 the first major restoration Taylors 
did in Berkshire . 3 cracked trebles recast , cannons off , new frame
and the sound is very much as you would expect . Had the same job
come up today , maybe the trebles would be welded , the cannons
retained and the Knight bells not allowed to be tuned .
 
Perhaps then , both Sonning and Thatcham represent an example
of the bell tuners art that cannot be repeated ?  If thats the case then
I would have thought that any maiden bell of that age would be listed .
 
Thanks.
 
David
 
 
 
 
 


--- On Thu, 10/9/08, Mike Chester <mike at JuMQbwvPQ2quhNW0ueLVrRA37u_ZINhHfTAZ86cERrqV7Wl57tXE01a2LgpdkMV_gUgFiUASblMOSPgEVDjA5OFsSz4.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

From: Mike Chester <mike at JuMQbwvPQ2quhNW0ueLVrRA37u_ZINhHfTAZ86cERrqV7Wl57tXE01a2LgpdkMV_gUgFiUASblMOSPgEVDjA5OFsSz4.yahoo.invalid>
Subject: [Bell Historians] Re: Reading the national bell register
To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 12:12 AM






--- In bellhistorians@ yahoogroups. com, "dcwillispiano" 
<dcwillispiano@ ...> wrote:
>
> I have downloaded the oxford guild part of this into a spreadsheet
> and as others have said , it is all a splendid piece of work .

Agreed!

> 
> My first home tower , Sonning , has 4 Ellis Knight tenors dated 
> 1640/41
> and under the LIST column of the register "yes" is entered against
> each bell . I presume that this is a preservation order . 

It means that the bells are listed and there are certain assumptions 
against tuning, recasting, etc - others will no doubt fill in the 
details.

I notice that canon status for the front bells, frequencies and 
diameters are not in the pNBR - can you not supply them to JCB?

Mike

 














                 
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