They're even stopping music videos in the middle to play ads now!!! 🤬🤬🤬 If RUclips is trying to piss off EVERYONE: the audience, the content creators, even the advertisers... They're doing a fantastic job! 😡
@@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.
MY dad worked there as bell hanger until 1972, thrn we ,over to Aus. I knew just about everybody in the bell foundry because of dad, I also worked there in school holidays. Harry Weedon and Ron Brown were carpenters there.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
The next logical recommendation for RUclips after this video should be Johnnie Carson and Jack Webb and their ‘Copper Clapper Caper’ routine. A true classic! 😁
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.
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 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...
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wait, was this recorded in 1999? Both sets of bells shown at 1:35 (for Tollard Royal and Charlton Churches) were cast then so there's no other possibility..
@@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.
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.
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!
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.
There are a lot of RUclips 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.
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.
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 :)
Hey - Stiff upper lip - The bells are BOLTED down. 1000 years. Did they really have the steeples or towers to hold those bells 1000 years ago? That was before the last Norman Invasion, when the French took over England and French was introduced to the language. AND - they were not change ringing in this example. But those bells do sound beautiful.
You *can* make a bell from pure gold, but A) there's a particular alloy of bronze that's considered best all around for sound quality and durability; and B) a pure gold bell would deform rapidly under the clapper. "approximately a 4:1 ratio of copper to tin (78% copper, 22% tin). This is a much higher tin component than that used in statuary bronze. A range of percentages of tin content can vary from 20 to 26%, depending on the founder who has arrived empirically at their own alloy ratio. It has been found that increasing the tin content increases the decay time of the bell strike, thus making the bell more sonorous. Taking into consideration overall properties, such as tensile strength, hardness, wear resistance, cast quality, sound, and cost, the optimum alloy can probably be obtained by having a type bronze composition as: ~20wt.%Sn, < 2wt.%Ni, < 1.5wt.%Pb, ~0.01wt.%P, < 1wt.%Sb, with balance of Cu," according to Wikipedia, is best. Look up "bell metal" if you're as geeky about it as I am...😁
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.
Robert Charles dutifully ordered the bell from Thomas Lester of the London bellfounding firm of Lester and Pack (known subsequently as the Whitechapel Bell Foundry)[4] for the sum of £150 13s 8d,[5] (equivalent to £23,850.62 today)[6] including freight to Philadelphia and insurance. It arrived in Philadelphia in August 1752. Norris wrote to Charles that the bell was in good order, but they had not yet sounded it, as they were building a clock for the State House's tower.[7] The bell was mounted on a stand to test the sound, and at the first strike of the clapper, the bell's rim cracked. Two local founders, John Pass and John Stow, offered to recast the bell. At Stow's foundry on Second Street, the bell was broken into small pieces, melted down, and cast into a new bell. The two founders decided that the metal was too brittle, and augmented the bell metal by about ten percent, using copper. The bell was ready in March 1753, and Norris reported that the lettering (that included the founders' names and the year) was even clearer on the new bell than on the old. Therefore, Whitechapel supplied the base metal only and at the time it was not known as the liberty bell until after 1776 some 23 years after the recasting.
I didn't have Bells on Our Wedding day ....We paid to have them ....but the weather was so bad .. it didn't happen .. Not Married Now ....Divorce.... Funny enough Checked the Date ....We got Married on the 15th December. Years ago lol Friends are Bell ringers or used to be XXX
Nope. I'm a bellringer. We ring from a chamber on a separate floor below the bells. In my regular tower, we are 2 floors below the belfry. The bells strike when the bell is approximately with the mouth facing sideways, so most of the sound goes sideways out of the louvres in the belfry. In fact, depending on the bell tower, how noisy the congregation are, etc. it can sometimes be hard to hear the bells properly in the ringing chamber.
If you were in a Campanile by the larger bells and they were bells which could be swung, you would need ear protection if they were swinging. If the bell is played by the carillon mechanism, you don't need ear protection as the stricker when hit by the carillonneur does not ring the bell with the force of a clapper on a swung bell.
I enjoyed the contrast between the enthusiasm of the narrator and the bored expressions on the faces of the foundry workers.
Trust me, the novelty wears off after a while 😂😂 (I speak from past and current experience)
RUclips is getting real comfortable with the dual non skippable ads..
How are you top comment when you have one like
@@engineergaming4295 bc I'm talking about the real issues we're all thinking about. Lol jk I have no idea
I agree Ugot Steve, it's insane
RUclips vanced for all my android brothers. No ads, no problems
They're even stopping music videos in the middle to play ads now!!! 🤬🤬🤬
If RUclips is trying to piss off EVERYONE: the audience, the content creators, even the advertisers... They're doing a fantastic job! 😡
Masters of craftsmanship. Beautiful music of bells. I really love it.
Having turned a fair number of bronze bearings over the years I can just imagine the sound in the shop when they are taking cuts.
Whitechapel Bell foundry has now closed after 450 years. The father of a friend of mine used to work there as a carpenter/joiner.
Why don't they put a nice smooth finish on all the bells?
Terrible news about the foundry. Hopefully someone will step up.
@@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.
@@christopherdean1326 a bunch of ding-a-lings...
A lost art. Sad.
MY dad worked there as bell hanger until 1972, thrn we ,over to Aus.
I knew just about everybody in the bell foundry because of dad, I also worked there in school holidays.
Harry Weedon and Ron Brown were carpenters there.
Agree. The narrator sounds like an enthusiast bachelor uncle addressing his five year old nephews & nieces.
@Richard Rootless SAME AHAHAHHA
the bellringers are playing the tune that makes Mr. Bean jump out of his bed and dance on Christmas morning.
idk why i was so addicted watching bells when i was a child
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.
Yea i miss living in Germany myself and visiting nearby towns and cities and hearing the bells. Such a beautiful sound in person.
Absolutely! I loved hearing the bells everyday in Pfaffing! Basically everywhere around Germany 🇩🇪.
The last minute was amazing.... By hearing the church bells I felt that Christmas is little ahead!
makes you wanna jump out of your bed, do a little dancing and say, "Christmas socks!" 🧦🧸
@@EngPheniks no.
Hell of a hobby. I’d love to have a hand ringable one just to play with.
I can just hear the narrator's mustache from his voice
😂😂😂😂
And his full tea cupboard.
this is like "how it's made" dr Seuss edition. I love it
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.
Grassmayr made more and is still in business. I’ve seen their bells in person throughout Asia at Buddhist temples and 1 Japanese shrine.
The Chicago bells and the Newyork bells were cast By Gillett and Johnston of Croydon.
Loved this as a child. Still have the CDs. I think glass was my favourite
"There is but one place to get your bells made" - BUT - the largest bell foundry is located in Loughborough
BY FAR the largest bell foundry in the world is Eijsbouts in the Netherlands.
@TheRageMaker Mine.
and Whitechapel has now closed
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 most old early bells in America are made in the Netherlands and also in France.
Funny that church bells violate noise pollution regulations but cars and sound systems do not...
@@LarryH54 Cars aren't religious in the same way bells are lol
They made the Liberty Bell? We'd like to fille a warranty claim.
Operator 801. We would be pleased to replace it if it is returned in the original packing!
@@cap5856 That sounds about right, but the current owners must show the original receipt!
@@cap5856 Sorry, it needs to state categorically the date of purchase!
@@cap5856 Are you really sure that this is the purchase date? I mean to say that that is very close to my mother-in-law's birthday date!
@@cap5856 Hang on, I'll just check, our records go back to 1152, but, sorry, no, are you sure it came from us?
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.
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
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.
I’m surprised that they don’t polish the bells to a high luster.
Narrator sounds like a children’s tv documentary for preschoolers
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.
How It's Made meets David Attenborough meets PBS, I like it! Not too watered down but also not overly technical. Definitely enjoyable to watch
Definitely needs to be redone by a Macho Man Randy Savage voice-over actor.
Lol, so true.
True but for things like this it suits well. I wouldnt want it any other way.
I like the Narrator... Very good.
Anyone else notice the dead hand in the background at 1:45?
@Melinda Green - this was the comment i was looking for
:)
That was a glove
it's a "sculpture", it rhymes with "culture".
S
@@bd5154 No, really?
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.
Lmfaooooo 😂😂😂 bro you legit made me laugh
Made me piss meself
The bride's mum is always a bitch
@@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
You really must have been carried away. For the rope to go through the ceiling you need to have broken the stay!
The church bells are fantastic.
I just love the sounds of Bell's nice vid b. t. w
"There is but one place in the world"
Bollocks. The largest bell foundry in the world is Eijsbouts in the Netherlands.
He didn’t say “any bells” - he said “bells like these” - so technically he’s correct
@@Psalm146-2 It wasn't the "bells like these" bit that is wrong, it is the "there is but one place in the world" bit.
As a scrapper, I'm drooling over all that brass
@Tabourba because I scrap metal and brass is worth a good penny in scrap. What's with being a douche?
Was this narrated for 9 year olds?
probably a video series for schools.
Probably a series for primary schools
The next logical recommendation for RUclips after this video should be Johnnie Carson and Jack Webb and their ‘Copper Clapper Caper’ routine. A true classic! 😁
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.
Jus jeruk bali dan sekitarnya jatuh cinta
4:00 Finally a description of horsepower in easy to understand terms.
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.
very cheerful documentary
I would have love this as a kid
too thing I'm still a kid at heart ^^
0:42 “I will just go for a coffeaaaaaaaaaah” killed by slag
Lol. Yeah. Wtf was that about
Ohhh... you know. What's a little molten slag dropped in your back pocket between friends? Right?
Everybody : full heat protective armor
boss: t-shirt and sweatpants
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...
Does anyone know the church that was in the video?
The church of Saint Mary the virgin altar mesham
@@wolfgangsbrother6118 thank you sooooo much I couldn’t find it anywhere 😀
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.
I have a bell ringer joke that ends in the punchline saying: "I am not sure , but his face rings a bell. "
This is the foundry that cast the Liberty bell. That's something I think I'd keep quiet. It cracked the first time it rang
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.
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".
“Desperate to get there bells out” 😂😂
pmsl 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍 ding dong
The guys face 🥱😐
He also said "Slaaaaaag" in the first few moments. He knew what he was doing.
This narrator,my good Lord, besides that he has another job at Judy and Punch’s circus.
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.
A lot of them were made and sent all over the US. There is a copy of the Liberty Bell at the State Capitol in Jackson MS.
Do they ever ring it?
I suppose.
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.
Arthur L. Gallagher p
I feel like this was meant as a segment for a teletubbies episode
Sounds like someone trying to impersonate Terry Jones but not quite succeeding.
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.
Unfortunately, Whitechapel Bell Foundry is no more!
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.
1:39 and I was hoping the narrator was going to transition into a Dr. Seuss style of a tale. Sadly he did not.
This guy should narrate a children’s fairytale movie.
That horse power fact was random.
Brett Palmer where does anyone learn something like that?!
more like a fairy tale
English humor at its finest....
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.
Like an inch is 3 barley corns.
'Desperate to get their bells out' LOL!
There are many bellfoundries besides Whitechapel.
Audinos For example, Taylor’s of Loughborough
Yeah
And also royal eijsbouts in Holland
Whitechapel is no more.
@@szymongorczynski7621 Thank goodness they sound like buckets, Taylor’s of Loughborough were always the best in England!
I stood next to the Czar’s Bell in the Kremlin. Enormous. It was never rung as it cracked after a fire.
They need to just move on an recast it already so it can be rung and placed in a tower as originally planned. It’s been 400 years.
@@kishascape That’s not possible. The original is a piece of history.
Wait, was this recorded in 1999? Both sets of bells shown at 1:35 (for Tollard Royal and Charlton Churches) were cast then so there's no other possibility..
It must have been.
Defo 1999 the bells that are being rehung are ours at Masham
Why does the guy doing the narration talk to me like I'm 5?
Because this is informational for all ages and you can watch it with your kids.
Cause u are
It was made for a KIDS tv show.
Why do you think that most of the detail was so basic that most adults would already know.
@@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.
@@tagfat Good for you.
Do I detect the dulcet tones o f Sir John Betjeman?
blast from the past
At the :47 mark, the guy is pouring molten metal in running pants, a t-shirt and a glove.
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.
Was that Freddy Kruger's hand in the back 1:47
Dudes just wearing a t-shirt and sweatpants pouring a crucible, absolute legend.
Agreed. You should see the metal artisans of south India. Shirtless and barefoot with no gloves or any other protective gear
He's got bronze balls, so it's all good.
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!
Oi, Nigel! You missed the damn wheelbarrow again!
Why do they use lava?
they use lava so the aliens cant send their brainwaves through the bell
Wonderful. And I did notice the hand...
This guys voice though. I feel like I’m watching an episode of animal kingdom and a lion is stalking a gazelle
After 450 years, Whitechapel Bell foundry has closed, leaving it to their business partner of 197 years to make bells.
5:24
Why is that bell stuck in the up position?
0:31 and Taylor’s of Loughborough. In fact, Whitechapel BF’s closed now.
British and Germans have the best sounding bells in Europe especially when it comes to big Bourdon bells.
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.
Only if you need it done in a minute?
God that part made me cringe
Ty for teaching me about bells
I wish you or they would have rung the one they said was just finished. They do sound wonderful. Thanks.
There are a lot of RUclips 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.
01:46 Is that 23 bellows and a hand ?
I think I met the blond bell ringer guy in 1994 or 1995 at Harper Adams Agric.Uni. Anyone know him?
how much does it cost for a church bell to be sent to NTT, Indonesia
Copper, in addition to being an element, IS a base metal when alloyed with other metals (Zinc.....)
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.
I need a bell that sound evilly ominous. Put it in my garage and make the neighborhood question reality
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 :)
I want to take another whack at this.......
I wonder if a vicar has ever had his bell rung by the clapper?
OK really gone this time LOL
Wasn't the liberty Bell cast by Pass & Stowe? Not Whitechapel bells.
Reproductions may have been made by the maker you mentioned but the actual Liberty Bell was made by Whitechapel Bells.
I wouldn't be telling anyone I cast the Liberty Bell. It cracked the first time it was rung. Just saying.
It is uncertain how the bell came to be cracked; the damage occurred sometime between 1817 and 1846.
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I like how one bell got stuck upside down from being pulled too far while being rung
yes, I noticed that 🤣
It's called hand stroke in British bell ringing it's normal
Did the narrator do the Mr Kipling cakes ad?
That’s an exceedingly good comment
Hey - Stiff upper lip - The bells are BOLTED down. 1000 years. Did they really have the steeples or towers to hold those bells 1000 years ago? That was before the last Norman Invasion, when the French took over England and French was introduced to the language. AND - they were not change ringing in this example. But those bells do sound beautiful.
anyone notice the hand over the workers left shoulder at the 1:45 mark?
is it possible to make a bell from pure gold?
You *can* make a bell from pure gold, but A) there's a particular alloy of bronze that's considered best all around for sound quality and durability; and B) a pure gold bell would deform rapidly under the clapper.
"approximately a 4:1 ratio of copper to tin (78% copper, 22% tin). This is a much higher tin component than that used in statuary bronze.
A range of percentages of tin content can vary from 20 to 26%, depending on the founder who has arrived empirically at their own alloy ratio. It has been found that increasing the tin content increases the decay time of the bell strike, thus making the bell more sonorous. Taking into consideration overall properties, such as tensile strength, hardness, wear resistance, cast quality, sound, and cost, the optimum alloy can probably be obtained by having a type bronze composition as: ~20wt.%Sn, < 2wt.%Ni, < 1.5wt.%Pb, ~0.01wt.%P, < 1wt.%Sb, with balance of Cu," according to Wikipedia, is best. Look up "bell metal" if you're as geeky about it as I am...😁
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.
Robert Charles dutifully ordered the bell from Thomas Lester of the London bellfounding firm of Lester and Pack (known subsequently as the Whitechapel Bell Foundry)[4] for the sum of £150 13s 8d,[5] (equivalent to £23,850.62 today)[6] including freight to Philadelphia and insurance. It arrived in Philadelphia in August 1752. Norris wrote to Charles that the bell was in good order, but they had not yet sounded it, as they were building a clock for the State House's tower.[7] The bell was mounted on a stand to test the sound, and at the first strike of the clapper, the bell's rim cracked. Two local founders, John Pass and John Stow, offered to recast the bell. At Stow's foundry on Second Street, the bell was broken into small pieces, melted down, and cast into a new bell. The two founders decided that the metal was too brittle, and augmented the bell metal by about ten percent, using copper. The bell was ready in March 1753, and Norris reported that the lettering (that included the founders' names and the year) was even clearer on the new bell than on the old.
Therefore, Whitechapel supplied the base metal only and at the time it was not known as the liberty bell until after 1776 some 23 years after the recasting.
Very nice video!
Now I wonder...........if a vicar has ever been hit by the clapper?
That certainly would "ring your bell".
I'll let myself out now :-)
That was super chilling 🧡
How do they decide what note to tune the bell to
My new favourote RUclips channel!
I didn't have Bells on Our Wedding day ....We paid to have them ....but the weather was so bad .. it didn't happen .. Not Married Now ....Divorce....
Funny enough Checked the Date ....We got Married on the 15th December. Years ago lol
Friends are Bell ringers or used to be XXX
What the hell is that behind the guy at 1:45
I wonder if those bellringers develop hearing problems
my ears are ringing now!
Nope.
I'm a bellringer. We ring from a chamber on a separate floor below the bells. In my regular tower, we are 2 floors below the belfry.
The bells strike when the bell is approximately with the mouth facing sideways, so most of the sound goes sideways out of the louvres in the belfry.
In fact, depending on the bell tower, how noisy the congregation are, etc. it can sometimes be hard to hear the bells properly in the ringing chamber.
If you were in a Campanile by the larger bells and they were bells which could be swung, you would need ear protection if they were swinging. If the bell is played by the carillon mechanism, you don't need ear protection as the stricker when hit by the carillonneur does not ring the bell with the force of a clapper on a swung bell.
I thought it was cleaned of slag with a can of Thot-B-Gone spray.
Nice they would have said how they used to tune the bells. But it was nice to see it cool.
That new bell looks like it already has a nice patina of bird poop on it.
Who is the narrator? He does fine work, would like to find more by him