Hear the bells

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The Ringing bells

All ringing in these recordings was carried out by members of YMSCR.

The back 8, tenor 59-1-23 in Bb

Rounds half-muffled	b8hmrnds.mp3 (139K, 17sec)
Plain Bob Triples half-muffled	b8hmpbt.mp3 (494K, 1min 3sec)
Stedman Triples half-muffled	b8hmpbt.mp3 (494K, 1min 3sec)

The back 10, 59-1-23 in Bb

Rounds Half-muffled	b10hmrnds.mp3 (99K, 12sec)
Call-changes half-muffled	b10hmcch.mp3 (1,218K, 2min 35sec)
Grandsire Caters	gcaters.mp3 (774K, 1min 38sec)

All 12, tenor 59-2-23 in Bb

Rounds on 12 (short clip)	r12short.mp3 (94K, 12sec)
Rounds on 12 (longer clip)	r12short.mp3 (94K, 12sec)
Yorkshire Surprise Maximus	yorksmax.mp3 (454K, 58sec)
Erin Cinques (short clip)	c_end.mp3 (649K, 41sec)
Erin Cinques (longer clip)	1-8roll.mp3 (1014K, 1 min 5sec)

The south-west tower manual chime

For these recordings, the chime was played by David Potter.

The back 8, tenor 23-3-19 in D

Rounds on 8	keybch1.mp3 (125K, 16sec)
Plain Bob Triples	keybch2.mp3 (339K, 45sec)

The north-west tower clock chime

6 quarter bells, largest 60-1-17 in Bb;
hour bell 216-2-22 in Eb:

The hour chime

clock128.mp3 (415K, 26sec)

The Spurriergate Centre bells

The back 5, tenor 8-2-15 in A

The back five (retuned 1988) were the front five of the 1681 ring of twelve bells at York Minster. The tenor of this five (cast in 1466 by Thomas Innocent of Leicester) was prior to 1655 the treble of the Minster's medieval ring of eight bells.

Rounds	spurr1.mp3 (88K, 11sec)
Grandsire Doubles	spurr2.mp3 (326K, 41sec)

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