Were there ever more bells?

I was married in this church in 1972.

All that's missing is the crash-cymbal at the end. You don't need the shimmery Wurlitzer sound & compulsory tremulant.

Notes E D# C# B A G# F# E

Have to say I was disappointed - they are OK outside (your video seems to have brought them out well), but rather poor inside, and feel a bit unloved. Shame - they could be fantastic.....

Notes C# B# A G# F E

The organ is currently being restored. It was discovered shortly after this video in 2011 that the blower had been rewired incorrectly so there wasn't sufficient wind being produced.

Notes F𝄪 E# D# C𝄪 B# A#

Gillett made great bells

Wery good😊

Wow🎉

ring it

I want to ring on these bells

6 hours jeez i feel sorry for the tenor ringer

I WAS A CHOIRBOY IN THE 1950S WITH FRED TOMLINSON.

That bell sounds mournful when it's rotating further.

not good bells for 11cwts

Sounds like Aylshams tenor before tuning

anticlockwise

I think the the bells should be rehung on new metal work and the bells cleaned and new chiming equipment

Are you still bell ringing

i wish they could be swingable again. these are the most unique steel bells

now a full circle ring the front 4 john taylor the back 4 are gillett and johnson hung on 2 levels tenor 6-0-25cwts

When I saw YAMAHA HC 4 being demonstrated by Glynn Madden, I fell in love with his BLACKPOOL SOUND. I have just returned from holiday in YARMOUTH. I had visited THE BAYGONE VILLAGE that had a small THURSFORD set up. Glynn was using your DIAPASON registration with tweaks for vibrato with strings. I never realised this when I bought the instrument - the sounds labelled THEATRE ORGAN where the KLAUS WUNDERLICH type !

trebles 3rd and 5th sre john taylor 4 is abel rudhall tenor 13-1-21cwts edward II seller

Nice to see well-taught ringing action; almost balletic. Am I right in guessing a pretty long draft? Happy New Year for 2023.

treble is taylors eayare and smith 2 and 3 gilettt and johnson the othee 3 john taylor plus a scantus bell cast by brassfoundry

I can tell you that it is IMPOSSIBLE to get a full theatre organ version of TIGER RAG anywhere. In all my years of playing I have only seen a very basic version. I believe you have to make up your own arrangement from stratch. And you prove all to able to do that !

To all music appreciation fans . . . The BLACKPOOL SOUND is to do with adding extra notes to existing melody and chords. The original sound of the first WURLITZER was too quiet to be heard when the ballroom was full. REGINALD DIXON created a better larger louder instrument installed in 1935. The extra magical notes were created by HARMONIC COUPLERS. On electronic organs, we have a similar idea invented by Lowery called AUTOMATIC ORGAN CHORD. KLAUS WUNDERLICH also used WERSI version of the system. Even KEN GRIFFIN had to play his melody notes doubled an octave apart - the same idea on HAMMOND that never had the system ! In the orchestra world GLENN MILLER got his special SOUND by arranging similar - saxophones and muted trumpets sandwiched between clarinet and tenor Sax one octave apart. In the vocal band world - CHAS & DAVE cockney voices fit together in a pleasing similar harmonic way too.

Another spot-on tune - the organ pipes are as good as WURLITZER ones. I'm truly in love with your playing and arranging - you can play a lot of the greats ! Nice to see the magical notes playing themselves by COUPLERS - the secret to professional BLACKPOOL playing.

Nice playing - I'm very interested in hearing electric old theatre-like organs. This one isn't all that good - a bit on the thin side - even if it is clapped out ! ! !

This needs to be a little faster to get that true DIXON magical feel . . . Also play it with BOO HOO ! ! !

Lovely . The recording quality let that down - but organs can be difficult to record.

And here you play HAMMOND . How about that - jazz organ on a FATHER WILLIS pipe organ ? !

In this we get to see your face more. Brilliant - you have made my day. But you must get your talent seen by more people. You are among the very best in the UK on any pipe organ - with an incredible ear for arrangement. Most people cannot read music - and improvise with a pig's ear in music ! ! !

Smashing . . . more unusual BLACKPOOL numbers - that I don't really listen to that often. Now, you sound really REGINALD DIXON with good registration choices. And that proves you really are someone special.

This is why I love CINEMA ORGANS so much. Your arrangement was slightly better on the FW. But you are a fine player nevertheless - and probably better than many concert organists today. Love that high screech that this tune needs so much ! ! !

You have a truly incredible ear for arrangement. That is why you produce so spectacularly the music of BLACKPOOL TOWER. This is what no music lesson will ever teach you !

You are the equal of REGINALD DIXON and PHIL KELSALL without a doubt. The arrangement and harmonics are so spot on. This is how you play an organ !

I've seen this video before, and was extremely impressed. This is the reason I love WURLITZER and pipe organs. The thing is this registration, arrangement and the style is so perfect. I was so bowled over I really didn't take it in that you are the carbon copy of PHIL KELSALL. You even bounce along to it in the same manner ! Frankly, after REG and PHIL - you are the best in the entire UK at that tune. I also think you've slightly better than MRS. MILLS at playing it . . .

There is a source I read that the bells are proposed to be move to St Cuthbert's in Over Kellet, still in the Blackburn Diocese and the LACR

Top notch

sounds like e note but in g

Wow!

nome more ringing church closed

This bell here was cast the same year as the 6 at Combe in Oxfordshire 12cwt 6 in same note!

I live by there and today (Sunday) I heard them ringing down the road then in the car we went past the church

these are in bad state now hammer for clock chime wont be disabled it just lies down on the tenor slider missing from tenor and in bad condition to ring all the way up

amazing tones these bells i cant wait to ring here on Wednesday the 29th of June

treble 2nd and tenor 20-0-20cwts are john taylor in 1897 3rd 6th and 7th are abrahm rudhall in 1711 5 is thomas I mears in 1841