[Bell Historians] Godalming

['Andrew Bull' a_m_bull@yahoo.co.uk [bellhistorians]]

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Sent: 03 September 2017 20:50
To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Bell Historians] Godalming

 

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.

DLC

I think the answer here is that there is retuning, and then there is
retuning. Our nearby ten at Berkeley, the fourth of which has been
unringable since 2010, are soon to return from Taylors. These bells had been
retuned by Taylors in 1978, but only to line up the nominals. The bells were
therefore in tune with each other, but still a grim-sounding old ten.
Taylor's initially advised against retuning this time, presumably on the
grounds that they had already been "retuned", but with a tenor of 23 cwt in
E, I felt that there was plenty of scope for improvement, and so I pushed to
have the partials of the bells tuned. As a result, Taylor's analysed the
bells and did a volte-face, firmly recommending that they be retuned. This
has now been done, but as the bells were still on the floor when we visited
the foundry to see them set up in the frame, I have not heard them yet.
However, I spoke to Girdar Vadulkar, Taylor's bell-tuner, who told me that
the bells had been greatly improved by the retuning, and the figures he
showed me in his notebook suggested that this might well be the case.

 

I do not know exactly what was done to Godalming bells in either 1952
(Whitechapel) or 1976 (Taylor), but if the only tuning carried out was to
the nominals, then there will be plenty of scope for the skilled tuners of
today to transform these bells. However, they will never sound as good as a
complete 24 cwt Taylor eight!

 

Andrew Bull



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