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

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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.

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The principal problem we envisaged from such extra information is making the job of collecting absolutely every item too daunting.Bell ringing also has opened up the opportunity of going to new and exciting places which I always look forward to.

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Similarly, we have decided to stop noting No regular ringing as we do not receive sufficient numbers of updates to maintain this as a reliable reference.Where we know of a discrepancy with a secondary source, such as a county Church Bells book, or an information board in the tower, we have endeavoured to ensure that the data shown is authoritative and normally flag the discrepancy on the tower details page. For a picture of Doncaster headed bells, see Elphick's Craft of the Bellfounder (1988) at top of page 41, and also page 43 of H B Walters's Church Bells of England (1912).

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The 2 bells in west end turret were conserved and rehung with new traditional fittings, the larger bell for swing chiming, the smaller for chiming by electro-magnetic hammer. Bell ringing is a team activity that stimulates the brain and helps keep you fit (especially climbing some of those tower steps! I learnt to ring over forty years ago and I still get the same buzz that I did when I first started.Anticlockwise; no mains electricity to provide lighting on stairs or ante chamber to protect bat population. Electro-magnetic chiming hammers were fitted and a programmable unit was manufactured and installed. It is important to remember that we have to make a decision as to which is the most helpful founder name to show.

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We continue to show practice night information (where advised), temporary pauses in ringing, and other more definitive ringing statuses. The 7th bell is being rehung on new gudgeons and bearings with its hang being altered to better suit the ring. The bells were tuned and given all new fittings and electromagnetic chiming hammers and rehung in rebuilt frame.

One bell (or more) cracked or broken; unringable; anticlockwise; rung from chancel; tuning: (approx) 2,4-7 of 12. Another interesting contribution to the information readily available about tuning appeared from the pen of Ray Ayres in RW1983/790,812. 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.