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Ringing[edit]

Hi, I've redone your edits to Bell>Ringing. English-style clappers move faster than the bell and strike roughly horizontal going up. If a clapper is on the other side of the bell it is termed "going up wrong" and has the reputation of leading to cracked bells. It's certainly far harder to stand the bell and you get a distinctive double strike when it's up wrong. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 11:06, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Someone else has proposed this page for speedy deletion. I thought you should know. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 21:14, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dougsim. I've fleshed out my ideas from CCCBR a little at talk:campanology. I've left things open for a week (in part to ensure I'm not accused of WP:OWN or similar). Any comments would be appreciated. Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 23:20, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I have fixed the issue for you so you do not need to do anything. 86.186.169.144 (talk) 17:37, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Church bell[edit]

Hi Doug. I note that you are including sanctuary bells in the "Church Bells" article and hence saying that bells are heard within the church. I suspect a lot of readers will think of the big tower bells when seeing "Church bells", and indeed most of the article is about them. In many churches the tower bells cannot be heard inside the church either at all, or when there is any speaking or singing – let alone if the organ is being given its head! I wonder if you would like to recast the first sentence of the lead to split the two usages? I'd wade in myself but you are doing a good job here and I don't like trampling on another editors work. Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 09:44, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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		For good, solid, extended work over the whole range of bell related articles Martin of Sheffield (talk) 09:16, 11 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Doug, I've removed the di-no notice from the above file now that you've provided {{self}}. Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 21:38, 23 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I maent to upload to commons, but it went into WP by mistake. Just on with Albert pitman and john holt at the moment. Dougsim (talk)

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File:St Bees bells in up position.jpg[edit]

Hi Doug. Is it my imagination or are numbers 2 & 3 up "wrong" in the photo? Quite possibly only experienced ringers will notice, but if you get a chance to retake the photo you might want to ensure the bells are up right. BTW, number 7 looks as though she's at balance point rather than set. This may be the camera angle though. Kind regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 22:26, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The photo was taken a number of years ago, and I did notice it only recently. You are the first other to notice and contact. I will post a more correct photo when convenient, but as not many people even knows what this means - until they start ringing, when they are correctly instructed, I don't think it is an urgent issue. I have been talking to one of the UK's leading authorities of bell tuning, and I hope to get those contributions on WP better sorted out in the future. Dougsim (talk) 13:22, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I totally agree it is not urgent, just a niggle for those in the know! There is certainly no rush. We started to talk about a reorganisation a couple of years ago (see Talk:Campanology#Major_review), but I got side tracked and I think you were involved in detail work. It might be a starting point though? BTW, your expert. If he's the gentleman who introduced computer tuning to Whitechapel, then I've rung with him. He is indeed very knowledgeable. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 14:39, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Dougsim, I wanted to thank you for further improvements to the lead section of Chernobyl disaster, especially for the improvements to my wording - it flows much better now, I feel.

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Both changes are part of larger edits that should contextualize them too. But I'll be happy to hop into a discussion on the article's talk page if you disagree.

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