[Bell Historians] Godalming

[Richard Offen richard.offen@iinet.net.au [bellhistorians]]

The advantage of a 26 bell carillon is there will be 18 good bells on top of the Godalming eight, so avoiding the bottom end of the clavier will only be a minor restriction!

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> On 4 Sep 2017, at 3:49 am, 'David Cawley' davidl.cawley at btinternet.com [bellhistorians] <bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> 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”?
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> 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.
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> On another poi nt, 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.
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> None of my business, I know, and I do wish Godalming and Geraldton well.
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