The Bells of Aylsham (St Michael), Norfolk

[@fartwell2000]

I'm sorry, but my original comments about these bells still stands. The local band must REALLY love these to preserve what is a not very musical ten. There is no account for taste.

[@simonbellringer]

Oh dear. Whilst it's undoubtedly nice to have the bells back in a ringable condition, I can't help but wonder at what cost. Even with tuning, they sound terrible (the nicest thing I could say would be "good for Norfolk"), not to mention the quality of the castings if 7 bells had to be welded! I can't help but question - was it really worth it> Or has good money just been thrown after bad? Especially when I understand there were alternative options offered, which would have produced a far superior result....

[@tittums]

In Norfolk's defence (if there is one...) there are a few, and only a few, quite nice towers. Castle Acre, Gaywood and Hethersett to name a few of my favourites. Wymondham are also good bells, but the acoustics both inside and out are very poor and let the bells down massively.

[@simonbellringer]

@@tittums correct - "good rings" in East Anglia as a whole are few and far between (I will add Diss to your Norfolk list - good old-style eight, but they take a bit of ringing). Here though was an opportunity to change that, and put a beacon of light in an otherwise poorly fuelled region of class rings of bells. Hey ho, it isn't me that has to ring here every week - I hope they do stand the test of time. My gut feeling though is that they will have another project here during my lifetime...

[@ΝΙΚΟΣΠΟΔΑΣ-δ4σ]

@@tittums bells 1 to 4 are osborn and arnold 5 and tenor samuel gilpin 6 is mears and stainbank along with the scantus bell 7 is george mears 8 is john stephen and 9 is thomas newman

[@ΝΙΚΟΣΠΟΔΑΣ-δ4σ]

@@tittums the bell at the beggining is the tenor of the 17cwt ring?

[@95tupolev]

They are certainly not terrible, and sound much better than I remember them. If you want terrible, ring at Bromsgrove.

[@euanthomas]

Pots and pans!

[@AndyPipkin1]

Yeh I know

[@chillinbro5423]

How come they tuned the bells on the lip of the bell?

[@benjaminvallejo6695]

That was probably to skirt the bells to raise pitch

[@Ringer_Fran]

Not much of an improvement from before...

[@Steven_Rowe]

Even with retuning, they really don't sound good. They should have broken them up and recast them but of course that is expensive

[@tittums]

They were offered the Cleator Moor bells to begin with and turned them down. Then they were offered the Paisley 8 and 2 new trebles to make them a 10 and they turned them down. Some of the local ringers like the current bells.

[@Steven_Rowe]

@@tittums I'm sure some of them do like the bells, taste is subjective.

[@ΝΙΚΟΣΠΟΔΑΣ-δ4σ]

much better sound in the belfry

[@SantaRudolph-ef6lv]

I have to be honest these are not the best sounding bells.