Bell Ringing at Buckfast Abbey, Devon - including Hosanna!

[@MePeterNicholls]

I’ve sat in on a bell ringing up there and boy you can feel the tower sway when it’s going full pelt!

[@TheMickhowes]

Thanks for this clip, I remember as a kid listening to these bells on the early morning radio (6am) when they opened with clips from towers around the UK, Buckfast Abbey was one of my favorites! never tire of watching bells in motion, and seeing the big Bourdon Bell in action mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[@themodsterrbsaltinemech1306]

1:00

[@engelbertschoormans]

The well-known bells! :-)

[@Steven_Rowe]

ya dunnit again Simon top stuff

[@c-historia]

Great!

[@dorxlab]

The biggest alarm I've ever seen 😂

[@SimonSimon-rn3tm]

Magnificent!

[@unitedfan209]

THE BABY BELLS ARE SINGING THEIR SONGS AND PAPA BELL IS TRYING TO SLEEP TO HE TELLS THEM TO GO TO BED AND THEN SINGS THEM A SONG AND THEN THE NEXT DAY THEY MAKE THE DAY BRIGHT BY SINGING AND MAKE THE PEOPLES HEARTS GLOW

[@leenaharry1907]

@@numbersix1908 im sure this person has had some

[@cornwall_trainspotter4346]

I have always dreamed to ring at buck fast abbey but I’m stuck at st martins church liskeard and Roche church

[@ashthegeek]

Why is one of them not being used?

[@simonbellringer]

Ah - it's a semitone bell, so not needed for the main peal but can be used to give a lighter ring of eight bells, using a subset of the main peal (excluding the natural second bell and four biggest bells (tenors).

[@ashthegeek]

@@simonbellringer Okay thanks for explaining.

[@bellringer22]

@@simonbellringer 0:23 who is the lady on the 11

[@fartwell2000]

Damn, for a moment, I thought Swebb was going to GTFU.....

[@BellringerBen]

4:16 - omg... They used to ring them on that little balcony??!! 😶😳

[@erikmeidoorn1745]

4.57 The Great Bell Climax 5*****

[@emmacashmore2762]

Oh they have hasting stays

[@patrickmeyer2802]

is that a huge conical sound deflector above the bells?

[@RingerThomas]

GS 5717 Nonsence my friend has rung here it’s a Sound Lantern which makes the bells go out the bells are stuck which makes them so loud.

[@janewatson6257]

Wakefield Cathedral has a ring of 12 + an extra treble and 6b.

[@numbersix1908]

good for you

[@shannondelaney3298]

1:06 some elderly lady is waving & 1:41/1:40 = bukfastabbey picutre

[@FrancescoBellringer]

what’s the point in writing that? Explain ‘Shannon’

[@patrickmeyer2802]

who is that who is also filming?

[@simonbellringer]

+Patrick Meyer A non-ringing friend of Aaron's!

[@timmeh1507]

at the end? very nice too.

[@lucad8936]

Hasting stays

[@simonbellringer]

Indeed. Many Taylor jobs of that era were/are fitted with Hastings stays

[@timmeh1507]

The acoustics from the ringing chamber seem to be very disappointing, they sound great from the old ringing platform though! Perhaps should be moved back...

[@abbeymaddox3114]

they seem fine to me :)

[@mikehumble1120]

And me @@abbeymaddox3114

[@emiliegimenez5256]

Oui

[@ameliaviolet6970]

the 10 rining with hosanna sound like wakefields back 10

[@giovannifrancescocantone1309]

Bello

[@Yeentenology]

Peal of 12 sounds like Bow bells

[@simonbellringer]

Yes - similar weight and key to Bow. A shame the poor acoustics and rope circle inside means they aren't nearly as good as Bow, although they are admittedly easier to handle

[@giorgiosegurini4291]

Parrocchia a tante campane della chiesa campanaro

[@giorgiosegurini4291]

Chiesa Parrocchiale

[@clochershautsalpins3214]

C'est trop facile

[@deeremeyer1753]

It would certainly suck to have to hear that whenever the "change ringers" got together for a "play date". But with the whole state church and all, I'm sure there's not much a "citizen" sick of listening to that can do about it.

[@fredmills368]

DEEREMEYER1 yeah there is ......move away from a church

[@Benicio_Fols]

Brltifull

[@haslinabdulhamid5787]

This is so loud

[@titmouse-distribution]

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