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The Bells of York Minster
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Күн бұрынI recently had the very great pleasure of attending a York Minster practice night and ringing these magnificent bells. They were cast in 1925 by Taylors and are absolutely magnificent. Being taken up to the belfry was just phenomenal, and I'm pleased with how the results came out. Hope you enjoy the video as much as I did making it and ringing on these fine fine bells :-D
Tenor 59-1-23 in Bflat
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0:10 Yorkshire Max
1:54 Bristol Max
3:33 The Back 10 in the Belfry
3:49 The 12 in the Belfry, Rounds and Stedman Cinques
5:13 On the balcony between the two towers, just below the louvres. Still Stedman Cinques and a night view over York
5:44 I also got to go and see Great Peter, (216-2-22 in Eflat, 1927 Taylors) - you can hear the 12 ringing in the background (Stedman Cinques still!!) but the 12's acoustics weren't great in there with Gt Peter
@lynnwarren6527 5 жыл бұрын
Love hearing the bells
@patrickmeyer2802 8 жыл бұрын
it's bells like this that make want to go and ring on any day of the week. They are definitely on the list
@morbius109 6 жыл бұрын
Glorious, majestic sound! I love it.
@pgnutter 11 жыл бұрын
Great video and great ringing. Nice one.
@adriansunman51 11 жыл бұрын
They are fantastic bells and it gives me great pleasure to hear them on the occasions when I'm visiting York and they're ringing. I think their tonal quality is partly down to them being Taylor's bells and partly due to them being cast as a ring of twelve.
@Peyethon 6 жыл бұрын
I love hearing this sound!
@YulianNoldor 11 жыл бұрын
Lovely set of bells, well rung :)
@simonbellringer 11 жыл бұрын
I too am non-religious but the bells are just stunning!!
@simonbellringer 11 жыл бұрын
Many thanks. I have a Nikon Coolpix S9200 and yes, it did a magnificent job in the belfry :)
@simonbellringer 11 жыл бұрын
Many thanks. Was really great, and I picked a good evening to go (not too many people there) so got a fair ring too :-)
@CHARLES202able 11 жыл бұрын
I'm not very religious but I just love the bells!
@simonbellringer 11 жыл бұрын
They are truly top-class - Taylor's showpiece ring, and rightly so - and it was a great pleasure to ring here and participate in - and listen to - some really high quality stuff. I just loved Stedman Cinques on these. Just heavenly!!
@simonbellringer 11 жыл бұрын
Many thanks, yes, I think I chose a couple of slightly different filming positions to most (so the tenor ringers weren't so visible, lol) and that worked. :-) Ringing here was by far and away the highlight of the 3 days I spent in York. Going up to see the bells especially was phenomenal, nothing more and nothing less, and the camera did well up there :-)
@maidstone10 11 жыл бұрын
Love this video - great overall aspect of the ringing room - perhaps the best I have seen on a youtube clip of York
@simonbellringer 11 жыл бұрын
Thanks Steve. Whitechapel can cast some good stuff - Bow for instance, and Liverpool Cath are lovely but the acoustics are not - but these are just top drawer. They are superb. To hear them, especially the slightly-dominating back 4, in the ringing room being rung to Bristol Max like they were here was just a privelege to listen to. And it is phenomenal in the belfry, nothing less!!
@Steven_Rowe 11 жыл бұрын
Thanks Simon, excellent video indeed. Some one once asked if Yorkminster would sound as good if cast by Whitechapel a company I have a HUGE heart for. The answer in my opinion is NO. Taylor tenors are simply the best and York Tenor is unique, I don't even think any other Taylor tenor comes close to it. Yorkminster is the finest ring in the world. A heavenly warm sound, they glow and have so much depth to them. And to hear them rung by experts is simply BEAUTIFUL.
@FranzFerdinandVIII 5 жыл бұрын
As for me, Gillett & Johnston is my favorite bell foundry because of Riverside Church NYC, but I do NOT want to offend others
@FrancescoBellringer 2 жыл бұрын
@@FranzFerdinandVIII Gillet and Johnston were very very good, though I think they were better at smaller rings (up to about 20cwt). I don't think they would've gotten close had they cast a ring similar to York Minster.
@Orgelix 11 жыл бұрын
Great video! Wich camera do you have? The sound is awsome!!!!
@Steven_Rowe 11 жыл бұрын
Simon your correct Whitechapel do have some nice rings but as my Dad ex bell hanger for whitechapel said, Taylors for tenors and whitechapel for trebles, I think he was right. Also the fact is that bells are as only as good as the tower and the surrounds and York is brilliant. You know it would be interesting if Liverpool Cathedral bells were in the other tower what they would sound like. If only they could spend the money on Liverpool for better accoustics they would sound amazing I think
@okio1886 8 жыл бұрын
I Love Great Peter Is It Ring ing?
@Steven_Rowe 7 жыл бұрын
Now they all got the tin tack. a new head bell ringer to be employed Hope he is not from Notre Dame with a hunch back and deaf
@davros_adl8155 Жыл бұрын
I've heard it's not so impossible to get a ring here anymore.
@binzeboo 4 жыл бұрын
I like the model in the middle where do you get it from
@simonbellringer 4 жыл бұрын
I have no idea - but it looks to me like that was custom-made!
@giand8680 5 жыл бұрын
How... How can they have perfect cordination?
@simonbellringer 5 жыл бұрын
Years and years of practice and attention to detail!
@annapowell6641 8 жыл бұрын
for some reson i like york minster's bellss probly becoz they prjuse alovley loud hevey mjestic sound
@irfrapg 7 жыл бұрын
Auful what they have done
@JesusTilapia 3 жыл бұрын
And your awful spelling.