Raising the bells at Maidstone (individually) + lowering 9 and 10.

Taken whilst sampling the sounds for Abel. The intention was to lower them individually but we had to get them down pretty quickly, so ended up lowering 9 and 10 together - which just so happened to turn out quite nicely!

Turn up the volume for that Taylor hum.

Special thank you to Graham (maidstone10) as well for letting me post footage and take the sound samples.

[GothiccBabe]

I've recently found myself very fascinated with big bells. Just the engineering and craftsmanship that's behind them. It's incredible that people found out how to craft metal into these large impressive things that produce a loud powerful resonance, and they figured how to tune them to produce specific resonances. It's timeless technology, as seemingly primitive and/or basic as it seems it's really not, it's genius. I wish more cities around the world would bring back bell towers.

[mariieett]

love the wooden arm that switches the clapper's position😊

[Justahuman-vv]

What an ingenious way to flip the clapper. Never seen that before.

[RingerPeter]

11:09 😍😍
The finest rings of ten in my opinion. I must ring these outstanding bells.

[CornishRingofBells]

The back 2 being lowered of any big ring is just so glorious!!

[railtransportvlogsnsw]

So cool how that arm puts the clapper in the correct position!

[maidstone]

This is a fantastic video, Alex. Glad of the different angle. I particularly like our ringing down of 9th and tenor. Sounded amazing in the ringing room and just as wonderful from the bell chamber. Audio is excellent

[KingCobraJFS]

I like the second bell that starts to ring at 3:22 what note is it

[adamm]

1:45 i thought good god!!!! someone certainly had their weetabix!!!! if it weren't for the transition on the bottom cam you could be fooled!

[Locomattive]

What a beautifully tuned set of bells.

[RingerLuca]

My friend Jamie will be very happy about this!

[ZZOOMGV]

This is the audio that Slushyduck put in his realistic bells game

[allecovv]

This seems like a demonstration of two similar Italian bell styles. When all the bells are put up each one is like the Tyrol instead when the two biggest ones are put down it is the Lucchese style.

[Kevmike]

Wow! That is quite a network of bells! 💖🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔💖

[pablooargentina]

no se por que me encanta ver estos videos de campanas. lastima que no son muchos.

[pulsglocke]

Beautiful Bells, would like to see them being rung the normal way

[cliveperryman]

Brilliant sound have bells been rehung with new clappers

[kyletheringer]

amazing video here i would like to ring here once and get a vid of me ringing the tenor up once

[Steven_Rowe]

I wonder why some tenors go up wrong even when you check the bell each back stroke??

[Chessboii]

I wonder why they didn't replace the old wooden clapper on the tenor to a metal one