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It is a little on the flat side. No bell will ever perfectly be in tune because of its partials that make up the nominal of the bell. The partial that your hearing that is slightly flat, is the hum which is the more forthcoming note of a bell's pitch, hence why it sounds slightly flat. Its actual note is more or less at the pitch of C#... just a couple of Hz out.

It is indeed... Not all of them are completely perfect, some more noticeable than others!

With a very strong sense of vertigo!!

@@BellringerBen trebles are westley group 3rd and 7th abraham rudhall 5th and 6th are mears and stainbank 4th john rudhall 8th charles and george mears 9th robert wells and tenor 23-2-19cwts whitechapel trebles are newer bells

I love the front 6! It is very easy to quickly ring a touch of something in no time and incredibly rewarding when struck right! The clappers and bells are bedding in quite well - The back 4 have a lovely subtle clapper knock to them, only really noticeable when ringing the back 8. The hum from the tenor is still incredible. I'm sure they wouldn't mind you popping in on a practice night or two :)

It's called Ding!

This was a youth ringing event... It gives the younger generation of bell ringers a chance to ring at places they wouldn't normally because they are often shut off until a higher level of ringing. Ringing on 10 or 12 can be difficult for some ringers, especially if they are not very experienced. I think everyone who rang at the minster that day did extremely well!

I'm not entirely sure what is going on with the 4th. I'll be honest, I don't really notice the 4th stand out too much, but I understand what you mean. The 4th is one of the older bells (cast 1796) and has been turned on multiple occasions, but I believe that they wanted to keep as much character of the back 8 as possible hence why it might sound off. It is "in tune" with the rest of the peal. Maybe its just the acoustics or the bedding in process that was happening in this video that made it sound off!

Thank you!!

Bellringing is fairly niche in the internet world!! However, once you become a bellringer, you start to realise that every church near to you, most likely has a band of bell ringers. Not to mention, lots of teens are getting into bellringing. Each year there is a competition amongst say 1,000 to 2,000 young ringers from across Great Britain who literally take over a city for a day, ringing at the cathedral and neighbouring churches and compete in a striking competition! It is incredible being a young ringer! After all, you get to go places where the public don't often go!!

Its really helpful to connect what goes on upstairs! As someone who knows what goes on upstairs, I could explain it all I could possible do it, and the learner still would have a little bit of trouble understanding. I guess its hard to comprehend that the bell swings a full 180 degrees!

being a great bells scholar I know how it works, but for those unfamiliar with the subject it is really useful@@BellringerBen

Thanks Fred!

@@BellringerBen awesome video

The name of the software is "Ding". Here's the link - www.dinging.co.uk/

@@BellringerBen THANKS 🙏

Hi from then!!!

Ah, so if you live near a church which rings fairly regularly such as on Sundays, you could go along and say that your interested. They would normally be very happy and supportive if you want to have a go. Another way is through a tower open day, where the band will open up the tower to the public and let them have a go at ringing.

@@BellringerBen thanks

Thanks!!!

Gotta love a belfry video!!

@@BellringerBen Always!

I love these as you can probably tell!! They are well worth the visit and small adjustments to how they sound in the ringing chamber are being made each week, making them sound even better!

Haha yes indeed it is! I tend to play on a small chamber organ with only 8 stops, so it is like Christmas day playing this organ!

@@BellringerBen Like Christmas Easter and birthday!

The 16' Trombone really does fill out the pedal when playing with a full principal sound on the Great. What is even better is that the Swell has about 5 or 6 reed stops (Don't quote me!) which can all be coupled down to the pedals to provide an even richer reed section in the pedals!

@@BellringerBen Oh wow! really impressive!

Thanks! Calne bells sure are lovely!!

Mhmm... The majority of the band have never rang on anything more than 8 before. Besides, it has much improved compared to 2 weeks ago and you can't exactly hear them inside - The noise just turns to mush in the ringing chamber because of the glorious hum of the tenor and echos upstairs.

​@@BellringerBen Haven't they improved the acoustics?

@@RingerThomas Yes and no! Moving the bells down the tower has improved the "acoustics" outside, but at a compromise to inside... They added wooden shafted clappers to 9 and 10 so that you can ring them up right without the need of a strapper, but, that has made them incredibly sonorous so, as a result, the sound bounces around the tower! Not only that, but the bells are partially inclosed in a room and, they need to figure out which areas need sound insulation in the void between the false ceiling and the belfry floor.

Pity you have to pick out the negatives!!

​@HarryBellringer Well, if a ringing video is posted onto the public domain, I have been always told that the striking needs to be good as therefore it will give a good publicity of ringing!

Indeed they are and I'm proud to say that they are my second home tower!

​@@BellringerBen

I understand where your coming from - To me it's "in tune' with the rest of the bells, but the flatness may be because of the acoustics, as they are still very much in the development stage!

Haha!! Yes believe it or not, this is somehow the same tower! I looked back on your quater peal and I was thinking, "where they really like that?!" I'm so glad that the bells haven't lost all of their characteristics like the quirky front end, especially the 9th with its strange thwack you sometimes get on the handstrokes is still there. The tenor is glorious... It was a lovely tenor before the wooden shafted clapper, but oh wow, it booms through the tower now - Downside to that is, when ringing all 10, you can only just hear the two trebles. The two new trebles do sound lovely... Not too harsh and tinny which as you say, can be the case! Westley Group have done a superb job with them! The band is in awe with them... The locals are glad to have them back and ringing again, they even had a local come up and had a go! Oh by the way, it is now possible to get the tenor up right on your own! Its hard work, stated by the Tower Captain after I arrived with him looking a bit red in the face, but its do-able!!

Yes indeed they where!

​@BellringerBen Well it said in your description the ninth wasn't tuned.

Ah... I believe i meant that it was but it hasn't lost its character!

@@BellringerBen Do you have a recording of it?

Not just yet... Hopefully planning on getting a recording of all 10 next week when you can hear the bells properly in the ringing chamber. It was a little bit hard to hear them and the ropes weren't set up properly, so the striking wasn't the best, but yes hopefully next week.

Thanks C-Historia!