Some very good (until the end) London Major from the Beautiful 22cwt 8 in Swanage.
(8), 22-0-24 in E
Brief History:
Until 1888, Swanage only had 4 bells. Three of them by John Wallis of Salisbury and the other one by Lester & Pack of Whitechapel. These were taken to the John Taylor foundry in Loughborough where the 3 Wallis bells were retuned and the L&P bell recast. 3 Trebles and a Tenor were then provided to make a ring of 8.
Then 2 peals, One of Stedman Triples and one of Bob Major were rang at the church. These being the first peal in both methods to be rung in Dorset.
1888 was some 8 years before harmonically tuned bells at Taylors. Taylors then wrote a letter probably on the lines of:
"we beg to say that upon making a careful test of the tones of the individual bells we find that certain overtones of the three smallest bells, which were cast in 1888, are so wild and chaotic and so predominant that even after everything possible is done in tuning these bells they will still produce the effect of not being in tune.
We are led to suggest that it will be a great pity that whilst the bells are here not to put the peal into proper tune but this can only be done by recasting and remodelling of these three smallest bells.
The head of our firm, Mr E. Denison Taylor, is very desirous that these bells should be recast into good toned bells and instructs us to make the offer to do this additional work at half price, i.e. for £36. He hopes that this will be helpful towards a favourable decision and that it will be taken as a gesture as to the interest we are taking in the present scheme of restoration and improvement."
The inscriptions were then copied onto the new bells.
The 6th and the tenor were in better shape so were retuned. The seventh was recast but heavier and richer in tone. As you can see at the end of the video, the seventh is a fine bell.
The Bells:
1 4-2-14 John Taylor 1940
2 5-0-1 John Taylor 1940
3 5-3-4 John Taylor 1940
4 6-3-6 John Wallis 1594
5 7-3-0 John Wallis 1612
6 10-0-26 John Taylor 1888
7 14-2-23 John Taylor 1940
8 22-0-24 John Taylor 1888 in E
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