Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers to the Ringing Bells of Britain and of The World

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Electro-magnetic chiming hammers were fitted and a programmable unit was manufactured and installed. Where the note shown is prefixed by an asterisk, this indicates that its note is actually more than 50 cents away from its expected value, working on the basis of international pitch and allowing for any stated variation of tuning from the diatonic sequence. Ring adapted to allow front six to be rung from an accessible gallery whilst retaining ability to allow all ten bells to be rung from the present ringing chamber. Where the ring forms part of a larger chime or carillon, we show the bell’s number in both the ring and the chime, if the numbers differ.

Dove’s Guide for Church Bell Ringers Dove’s Guide for Church Bell Ringers

The note we show for each bell is based on the key note of the ring (usually, but not always, the tenor note) and the position of each bell within the ring. The principal problem we envisaged from such extra information is making the job of collecting absolutely every item too daunting. It is important to remember that we have to make a decision as to which is the most helpful founder name to show.

It should be remembered that many rings were tuned to old pitch standards and the tenor note was expressed accordingly. Finally, we have set up pages to allow the reader to browse truss types and layout types, although we still recommend that reference is made to Chris Pickford’s book Bellframes, A practical guide to inspection and recording when contributing updates.

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But, taken with those already collected, these additional parameters would seem to go completely towards meeting the general agreement of a meeting of interested parties held in May 1999 at Leicester University as to the desirable scope for any National Bell Register. When the indentation gets to about 10% of the soundbow thickness, a bell is normally turned to present new surfaces to the clapper; that procedure is referred to as quarter turning or simply turning. Whether or not any bell has been turned, and by how much, is indicated by a single-letter code, as follows: 2 half-turned; this is exceedingly rare 4 quarter-turned 6 one-sixth-turned; this is unusual 8 one-eighth-turned X one-sixteenth-turned M multiple amounts, such as one-quarter and one-eighth) Y definitely turned, but by an unknown amount N not turned U an undeterminable state.The manner in which each bell is hung is indicated as follows: FC hung for full-circle ringing in the style used for English change ringing S hung for swing chiming D hung dead, i.