The vicar's old bells are worn out, so it's off to Whitechapel to get some new ones. The foundry boys and girls get smelting, and it's up the belfry with new bells and clappers.
They're even stopping music videos in the middle to play ads now!!! 🤬🤬🤬 If RU-vid is trying to piss off EVERYONE: the audience, the content creators, even the advertisers... They're doing a fantastic job! 😡
While living in the German town of Rattlesdorf, there was a cathedral down the street in a town called Ebin and they had similar bells. What a joy it was to hear them ring. I miss Bavaria very much, and for these are one reason, the glorious bells.
@@AndyFromBeaverton The only way to put a nice shiny finish on the bells, is to add or remove metal. This will affect the sound of the bell. Much more important to sound nice than look nice. They did sell nicely polished hand bells in the shop, but they were of a different scale. Someone has "stepped up" when last I heard. Sadly, they had "stepped up" to turn it all into a hotel for hipsters.
It’s amazing to think of how many bells were made by Britain and sent to other countries. Like the Chicago and New York Carillon bells were made by Britain (18.5 to 20 Ton bell) and even the iconic “Big Ben” back in 1859.
I would love to buy a bell and try tuning it. Tuning is a very complicated process. Example: In a C-2 carillon bell, they tune the bell to have have the partials (harmonics) be C-1 Hum tone , C-2 Strike note, Eb-2 Tierce, G-2 Quint, C-3 Octave. Raising or lowering one partial to bring it into precise tune also affects other partials and in differing amounts. 53 replicas of the Liberty Bell were cast in France (I forget which foundry) and one donated to each state. Unlike the Liberty Bell, the replicas were tuned. (I recall F-natural.) Oureplica was in a metal frame and unable to be rung. For Colorado's Bicentennial, 1986, I convinced the governor's office to release it. Theyen had a ceremony and the governor pulled the rope to swing it and it finally started to ring! On infrequent occasions that I was driving by, it was usually swinging from someone having earlier moved it. Someone reported it doing 360s. The 2,000 lbell could kill someone doing that, so they immobilized it as before.
I worked as a furnace operator at a copper rod mill. I tried skimming the slag off the copper without my aluminum suit and my shirt started smoking, never try that sht again...
Half a mile isn’t that far, if you strike one of these bad boys properly and have it in an open tower that lets it resonate freely you can get a mile easy during the daytime when noise floor is higher and 2-4 miles at night when it’s quiet.
it's kinda cute, charming. still informative, but this probably is intended to be digestible for a younger audience anyway, even if it's still interesting for adults.
Uh, the USA has several cast bell manufacturers still today. Bells can last hundreds of years, and few churches are built with them now, that's why there aren't many manufacturers anymore.
The second largest bell in the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Carillon at the University of Chicago is colloquially known as Big Ben because it is 13.5 tons like the famous bell in Queen Elizabeth Tower. It is tuned to D Major.
The next logical recommendation for RU-vid after this video should be Johnnie Carson and Jack Webb and their ‘Copper Clapper Caper’ routine. A true classic! 😁
When a friend of mine got married they let me ring the church bell, I guess I was getting carried away, so the bride's mother gave me a dirty look, I let go of the rope and it shot up through the hole, then I really got a dirty look. I think of that every time I see a church bell.
@@steveoo410 Damn, I just sang your comment in Cartman's voice: Weeeeeeeeeell, Bride's mom is a bitch. She's a big fat bitch. She's a biggest bitch in a whole wide world
Soy de Brazil. Eso era lo que más quería yo saber, cómo es echo las campanas. Todo muy bonito. Mucha ingeniería. Mucha dedicación a este tipo de trabajo. Felicitaciones. A mí me gustó mucho.
Since the return of Balangiga Bells went back in the Philippines on December 10, 2018 was arrive the three church bells was departure in Manila from U.S. Military Base in Okinawa, Japan until returned at St. Lawrence the Martyr Parish Church in Balangiga, Eastern Samar on December 15, 2018 was began the Holiday night mass on Christmas Season. These remembered on encounter incident in 1901 here in the town was fought the Filipino irregulars against the Americans. Just long live in the Philippines turns returned the Balangiga Bells here in this country and all the heroes only.
But returned the three church bells came back in the Philippines and again back to parish church in Balangiga, Eastern Samar almost 117 years ago and first time on ringing bells on Christmas Season on the Holiday Night Mass for Simbang Gabi and Misa de Gallo. Just done the bells are back now in the Philippines for Balangiga Bells.
Whitechapel now closed unfortunately. Still a major bell foundry at Loughborough. Older foundries around in Germany, Switzerland and various other European countries.
why did it finnaly close, the wiki said it was the oldest manufacturing company in great briton, 450 years is an emence amount of time, after all, and that kind of experiance doesn't come overnight making bells that long, nor can it be learned overnight? was it a lack of buisness? after all they did make all kinds of bells from big ones to hand bells. its so sad they closed such a long time it was around, I see an american company want s to make a bell themed cafe out of the old premises I hope we do a good job, and dont just cheapen it or wreckavate things like so many renovators like to do, and I hope they dont do to the cathedral of our lady in paris, notredame, I hope icons like these are built the way they were its no need to change something that is part and parcil of their ethos of culture.
I'm waiting for the narrator to say "Stanley was faced with many options of which bell to choose and whether he should ring one of them or all of them".
There are a lot of RU-vid videos on Campaniles and Carillons. My favorite one is Carillon (A tower filled with 100 tons of bells.) This is about the University of Chicago Carillon, the 2nd largest in the world. There is a carillon in my city and another in a University town 30 miles north. There are 600 or more around the world, most of them being in Belgium and The Netherlands.
Its very rare to hear church bells in the US any more. To many people complain. A lot of churches still have them, but they go unrung, it's sad. I remember when I was a boy the large Methodist church in my grandparents home town rang bells every day. But no more.
At 0:41, the guy is just casually chucking a ladle of molten slag in the general direction of a wheelbarrow and missing completely, while a coworker with no PPE is like 6 feet from the landing zone. You could fill a warehouse with the f#@%$ these guys don't give.
Another ancient definition of horsepower I heard was the power needed to pull one cut tree of a certain size through the woods. This at least took into accout the case of a Chuck Norris like horse :) I´m glad we established the SI system.
One horsepower = one horse needed to lift a large elephant over the head of a small child in one minute. This is what happens when you avoid SI/metric units.
For those still barely interested, Whitechapel has closed down now but John Taylor & Co in Loughborough, Leicestershire are still going. Plus there are a few other companies that re-hang old bells and work in conjuction with foundries. Also Electric winches are still a luxury. Most are by hand. Or you can get compressed air powered ones too :)
One would think the reason the Liberty Bell cracked is the same reason Big Ben cracked. The fool that installed Big Ben used an oversized clapper, outside design specification. Just hit it with a bigger hammer was his mantra. To mean to buy a bigger bell.
The next time I need to lift a large elephant over the head of a child, I know that I really only need one horse. That'll save me some money on horses.
The Liberty Bell was last rang in 1976 but it sounded terrible and the crack grew even more so they will never ring it again, it would be nice if we had another one made that is not cracked.
I would like to see a digital scan of the liberty bell made all the damage from its history removed, a mold made and an exact copy of the original bell's metal used to cast the new bell so that the new bell will be as close as possible the original in looks and sound when it is rung.
The churches here don't use their bronze bells. They have huge speakers mounted in the tower and amplifiers that play the bell sounds off of a CD in the office!
If what you say is true then that's another art lost to this country. There seems to be a lot of old British trade's dying out over the last 30 years or so.
@@who-gives-a-toss_Bear I was never so infantile as to need this kind of rubbish. Not at 10, nor at 8 or 5. Kids are not necessarily stupid. Neiter do they see rubish as a good replacement for information.
When I was six years old I ran under the bell at the church I go to and busted my head open. Fourteen years later I still have the scar in the centre of my forehead.
that's a myth...it was actually Ding A. Ling in the 4th century China and just curiosity, is you're dad's name Robert/Bob and mom's name is Gloria? Just wondering I have a cousin whose name is Eric Keller
