Bell muffles - for when you only kinda want to make a bell quieter
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Ringing "half-muffled" is something mentioned on this channel before and over on the @St_Matts_Bells channel periodically. But what does that actually mean? What does it involve? Why is it done?
In my own 16 years of ringing, I'm aware of us ringing half-muffled only 3 times during that period. I figured that other people would know even less than me, so I've put together some answers for (hopefully) all of your questions!
Thanks to everyone at St Matthew's Society of Bellringers for their support.
Video production by Scott Pilkington @spil030 2022
I was looking for bell muffling videos for my clothes not a big one but this video was very interesting anyway! Hello from nz!
Oddly i've been making quite a few muffles for the local churches in the past few weeks ,, on my forth church now,, thanks for taking the time to post this up
An excellent video in explaining what muffles do and how they are used.
We (like probably every tower) are aware of the chance of needing full muffles in the next few years increasing day by day. One of our ringers has made some using cheap, thin, rubber car mats, cut into strips with an H then cut in to the middle (drilled at each of the 4 ends of the H to stop it continuing to split) which goes over the end of the clapper, then the two floppy bits go over the ball and are cable tied around the clapper flight.
Given full muffles are really only a once or twice in a ringing career requirement, it seemed silly spend hundreds of pounds/dollars in buying a set to use for 2 weeks in maybe the next 30 years.
Your presentation was very good, my partner is a non-ringer and for some reason muffling of bells came up and I put a search into RUclips and this came up, which, unlike the rest, explained what it was rather than just "here is Grandsire half muffled".
Don't forget you only need 7 bells fully muffled, as the tenor should be open on backstroke, according to protocol ("Operation London Bridge" as it is known in the UK - not just for bell ringers either, that's the name of the plan for any organisation involved)
Thanks! We've recently needed to ring half-muffled and some of our ringers hadn't experienced it before and it made me realise that a lot of people (ringers and non- alike) probably wouldn't know much and might have some questions. Yes, you're right, we'd only need 7 more muffles, I'd entirely forgot (although had been previously told by the Tower Captain).
To the best of our knowledge, our tower has never rung fully muffled! While the tower was established in 1905 there wasn't a full band until about 1912. Between the wars there was a partial band (many ringers had returned to the UK or had died in war) and after WWII the tower was entirely silent for nearly 30 years.
If/when we ring fully muffled, you can expect we'll record a lot and pop it up on our other channel: ruclips.net/channel/UC8kO5fowCCtd-Dv35KroXzw
bloody hell 2:14 bit dangerous cause bells are up while you are putting muffles on bell
Nah, the bells were all locked into place. We didn't specifically mention that in this video but have in another. I'm hoping to sit down with the steeplekeeper who designed the locking mechanism to explain about it (as well as how to get a copy of the design for your own tower if interested).
@@spil030 oh i see why you would do that when they have a locking mechanism so at least the bell wont come off the stay
@@chillinbro5423 It actually works one step further, and you could remove the slider and the bell won't move because the wheel is immobilised. It's so sensitive that if you bent or cracked the stay, the locking system would let you know there's a problem and you could go and fix it. I'm STILL trying to get the steeplekeeper who designed it to sit down and do an interview with me!
I am obviously being really dim, but why are the bells "dangerous" in a particular position? They are all safely attached surely. Sorry for being stupid, but I would love to know.
3:50 That didn't age well...
🤣 No it didn't! I've made a follow up video about that. You should check it out!