Welcome to my channel. This channel is dedicated to the noble art of church bell ringing. I have rung all over the United Kingdom and I am based in Kent. Please don't hesitate to comment!
Speaking of "Great Bede" nobody has ever filmed that bell in action athough sources indicate this 5 ton bourdon's note is a G BTW is this the only bell in the tower?
No they haven't. There's one, albeit poor quality, recording of the bell being struck. It sounds rather glorious. Yes, Emmanuel is the only bell in its tower. ProfMoose jokingly said that it needed eleven smaller ones to make a big ring of twelve...!
Thank you very much. BelfryCam certainly caught it perfectly. You should have seen me positioning it, I spent about 5 minutes making sure the framing was right!! It is such a satisfying bell to ring. Sounds amazing and booms brilliantly.
@@RingerJake I love bells like this. Must admit I would love to see Great Paul have the Canons removed and then Simpson tuned. There is a bell in the bell tower in Perth called the Anzac bell, it was cast here in Australia but tuned by Nigel Taylor, it sounds truly amazing.
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Someone either doesn't know how to use a camera, or is in this American 'privacy' trip of social isolation by hiding the fellow ringers. This is NOT the goal of the ringing community -- privacy! There is a time in life for privacy JUST AS there is ALSO a time in life for PUBLIC social ability and interaction. Bellringing is the LATTER! COMMUNITY, NOT ISOLATION! It is a worldwide community and as there is a SHORTAGE of ringers, social action is paramount for this exercis survival! I have seen countless videos on ringing (as well partaken in the exercise as well) and there really is no room for this hiding people and fellow ringers. Either that you are not watching what you video, you have to point the camera as to include the action not have the camera almost pointing to the ceiling. Many people taking videos thinking it is 'impolite' to show other people. This is dogma as to promote social isolation and fear (agoraphobia). We are usually trying to recruit new ringers and it is paramount to show how it is done. Can't do that if most of the action is hidden! From my experience the vast majority of my ringing peers LOVE to be shown and take great PRIDE in the accomplishments of good ringing. Most would WANT to be seen! Not hidden. Thank you!
Being a ringer myself, I am really appalled! Never in years of watching other ringers on RU-vid show only the one doing the taping, and BLOTING out the face of a fellow ringer! Usually worldwide, campanology (change ringing) is a COMMUNITY and a SOCIAL exercise! Especially in the UK the birth home of this art, to actually BLOT OUT a face of an adjacent ringer!? REALLY!? This is NOT in someone's private home, but in a PUBLIC SPACE, like a church, town hall, or a stand alone tower like Basildon in London, the Manchester town hall, or indeed in Perth Australia the Swan bells (BTW both the Swan Bells and Basildon are GLASS towers so the public at large can SEE IN! We are ALWAYS looking for new ringers, to teach them to become proficient ringers. To HIDE faces, this is an AMERICAN trait as it was started there of hiding facial identities. A form of subtle indoctrination of promoting social isolation and loneliness which is VERY unhealthy. Also you failed to show the other ringers, as not showing the ringing chamber as well. One should take great PRIDE in ringing and not shame, by hiding faces, but to WANT to be seen by the viewers, I know as a ringer that I would!
@@Nino-v7u The tower captain left comments demanding I blot out the others’ faces. Not much I can do about that, it is not a case of only wanting to show myself. Thanks for the rant.
Three points - 1 A church is not a public place. It is a private place open to the public at the discretion of those appointed for its care. 2 Basildon is not a secular tower. It belongs to the church of St Martin of Tours. 3 As a private place a visitor can only make video or other recording within its boundaries with the permission of the person in authority and any individual has the right to request that their image not be published ie. shared in the public domain.
Was here today funny enough for the peak caverns tour, as I was walking past the church I heard the clock chimes and my God, I swear everyone said something bad about them 😂😂😂
@@susanne5803 Oh my shoulders were fine, it was more my legs. Even though I'd kept moving throughout the peal to keep blood circulation going properly, they were totally seized up by the end of it. Safe to say I needed a sit down afterwards!
This this the kind and sounds of our church bells it was two pieces it all lost. very beaufiful fo hear that you could fell full spirituality. i missed our church bells very much.
I wish people can film Great Paul, Great Tom and the Quarterjacks in the south tower more often rather then going to the North Tower where the ringing bells are
I remember seeing the peel of bells in action twenty years ago…and then climbing higher within the tower to see the 10 stationary bells…., higher still to see the clocks and eventually all the way to the interior tip of the steeple….what a thrill that was. St. James’ Cathedral is -overall- my favourite church building in Canada.
