Concerto a 7 campane della Moseley

[@simonbellringer]

1:05 - Thats enough... Love it!! Never was a truer sentence spoken!!

[@timmeh1507]

we have a Naylor-Vickers 3 in Herefordshire at Downton-ont'-Rock but I don't know when, if ever they have been rung.

[@irkibby]

@simonbellringer What a rash comment. Some of Moseley bells are tonally halfway decent.

[@timmeh1507]

laughter was the reaction of most of our group when we went to ring at Waddesdon but these are even worse!

[@irkibby]

I liked Waddesdon after a while

[@02wlander]

They sound almost as lovely as Machynlleth

[@irkibby]

having managed to ring at York Minster last night, I can agree that Moseley are better. Just a little bit though.

[@irkibby]

RIP

[@GJChurchward]

Any chance we might persuade Emily that they're going to replace the Gillett 10 at Hanley and become the first steel 12? Haha! You know who I am, Kibby!

[@irkibby]

Oh aye. That York Minster? discordant pisspots!

[@irkibby]

Fear not!! There is a grand scheme to replace these steel bells with a new 17cwt ten. I think the fate of these bells is still undecided.

[@jasonburnet9181]

If I was there I would probably be laughing my head off at how awful these bells were!

[@irkibby]

@Gophobos The fund raising is still a fair way off, so there's still a year at least I'd say. unfortunately peals are probably out of the question, as they are extremely loud in a built up area. There might be one last one but it would have all the SMG people in it.

[@george6373]

why is the tenor unringable? as stated in dove.

[@timmeh1507]

Love "That's enough!" Oh dear Lord make it stop before I lose all my blood through my ears :'(

[@timmeh1507]

well that's impressive, I never knew bells could make such sounds. On the plus side having the notes all wrong improves ringing on 7... or not.

[@jasonburnet9181]

is there a video on KZbin with the 8 in it?

[@fredmills368]

CambridgeMinor yeah there is

[@1BODGER95]

Lol at Dove's! "the 3rd is aprox a semitone flat" Listen to the rest! Beautiful!

[@Jeep192]

I can't believe that they have been used as church bells - but despite that It would be a shame if there were no steel bells left. Part of our ringing heritege. Have them put in a tower miles from anywhere so we can still ring them but no one can hear!!

[@irkibby]

"the 3rd, along with the rest of the bells, are hilarious" would be better.

[@simonbellringer]

@Jeep192 No. Smash these up, Chalford in Gloucestershire are steel and a helluva lot nicer than these dustbins!!!

[@irkibby]

go and have a look at them. Chances are that all three are the same note.

[@jasonburnet9181]

Ummm nice bells??

[@waltzplayer]

"that's enough" quite.

[@irkibby]

You have caused no offence. These bells are widely regarded as being of awful tone and they od not go easily either. I visited them on a ringing outing.

[@1BODGER95]

Waddeson ain't bad really.

[@elton1981]

The problem is they were cast out of tune, the hum note is very sharp so even if retuned they’ll always sound odd.

[@irkibby]

Actually, we have numerous testimonials from the Victorian era about how well tuned steel bells are. The way a bell sounds depends on the thickness of each part of the bell relative to itself and unfortunately steel bells rusted away at a heroic rate, destroying any kind of tuning they once had. These bells in particular were rusted so much that tuning would have either been a lost cause or simply caused bells to disintegrate entirely

[@irkibby]

It's kind of like a large glorified Corley, and funnier. The band who rang up actually couldnt manage rounds because they were laughing too much

[@irkibby]

because it is lying on the floor of the belfry! the gudgeons failed last year while it was being rung.