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

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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. Electro-magnetic chiming hammers were fitted and a programmable unit was manufactured and installed. A recent young (teenage) ringer says this about ringing: “Over the past 2-3 years I have learned a lot, and it has helped me improve my social skills and confidence as well as team integration. 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. We show a founder's name even if it is only postulated that he is so and then indicated by a leading question mark.

Dove’s Guide: Rings of four bells or more - CCCBR Dove’s Guide: Rings of four bells or more - CCCBR

We continue to show practice night information (where advised), temporary pauses in ringing, and other more definitive ringing statuses. One bell (or more) cracked or broken; unringable; rung from chancel crossing; tuning: 1-3 of 5; former 4/5 and 5/5 of ring now missing. 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.It should be remembered that many rings were tuned to old pitch standards and the tenor note was expressed accordingly.

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

Thus, for instance, where a ring of 3 in B♭ is tuned as 1,2♭,3 of a ring of 3, we add a flat to bell 2 and show the notes as B♭,C♭,D. It is important to remember that we have to make a decision as to which is the most helpful founder name to show. Where a ring has accidentals (semi-tone bells), for example 2♯, 5♯, or 6♭, we take the note value from the corresponding bell in the ring and add a sharp or a flat as applicable. For excellent introductions to, and expositions of, bell tuning, notes, and nominals, we recommend both Bill Hibbert's and Nigel Taylor's webpages.

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. Adjustable crown staples are being fitted to all bells to eradicate odd struckness with all existing clappers refurbished. I learnt to ring over forty years ago and I still get the same buzz that I did when I first started. If the best estimate is a century (for example, based on its its shape or the profile of any moulding wires), then we show the final year of that century (e.