[Bell Historians] Godalming

['David Cawley' davidl.cawley@btinternet.com [bellhistorians]]

I was certainly taken by surprise, as I think Ted must have been, by the
"RECAST" inscriptions on Godalming's new Bells following the news that the
old ones were to go to Australia rather than to the pot. It does call into
question the purpose of a commemorative inscription on a Bell or anywhere
else. It begs the question, "what does RECAST mean"?

 

Taking my cue from York Minster in 1926, and no doubt elsewhere, I might
suggest "ITERIM FUSA" - or even the English version "Cast Anew" which is
perhaps sufficiently vague a compromise as to be acceptable to purists,
historians as well as to the customer. Usable too with or without a
reproduced or repeated inscription, and possibly acceptable even alongside a
new one.

 

On another point, and again it is the customer's choice, if Godalming old
Bells are so  incurably dreadful as the article implies, whatever is their
effect to be on a 26-bell carillon, an instrument which requires such a high
degree of precision and accuracy in its  Bells.

 

None of my business, I know, and I do wish Godalming and Geraldton well.

 

DLC

 

   

 

 

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