[Bell Historians] Re: More ebay

[Matthew Higby & Company Ltd, www.bellhangers.com]

All you need is a few bits of inner tube, some marbles and some 
araldite adhesive. Cut the inner tube rubber into strips and mount the 
marbles on one side using araldite. Then mount one rubber/marble each 
side of the pit so the bell collides with the marble on the way up, and 
slilently brushes past it on the way down. Mini ring clappers made easy!

Matthew


For "hanging" read "playing around with"-this external clappering has 
me beat, even with a pendelum clapper that hits the bell as it swings 
in each direction.




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--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, David Godwin <Dwhgodwin at ...> 
wrote:
>
> I have! A complete set was sold by a somerset bell hanger the other 
week after spending ages in the office.
>

Ah, at least a ringer got them.

I was considering bidding for that octave, and if I'd won them, was 
going to tune them and replace the octave of pressed steel handbells I 
have been hanging for the last three years. For "hanging" read "playing 
around with"-this external clappering has me beat, even with a pendelum 
clapper that hits the bell as it swings in each direction.

Alan