Gillett and Johnston, formerly Gillett and Bland, were bellfounders in Croydon, Surrey from the late 19th century to the early 1950s. For the first half of the 20th century they were one of the premier founders of carillons and change-ringing bells. Cyril Johnston, son of the original partner Arthur Johnston, joined the company in 1902 […]
An investigation into the scale of thickness of 7,653 bells and how it affects prime and octave nominal tuning […]
Description of a simple experimental procedure for identifying the nodal patterns of bell partials. […]
Investigation of the tuning of 31 historic peals of eight and ten showing their strike pitches were tuned more accurately than expected, followed by a review of the few written accounts of historic methods of bell tuning. […]
Determining the strike pitch of tubular bells. […]
A classic Taylor peal from 1887. […]
This page gives statistics by founder and date of my collection of bell recordings. […]
Detailed records taken when the tenor of Westminster Abbey was tuned in 1971 show the impossibility of independent tuning of upper partials. […]
How to do a tonal analysis of a bell from a recording of it. […]
Visited: Bill Hibbert 31 August 2002 This is a historically very important ring from the Taylor bellfoundry. The tower website used to say: “The bells were cast by John Taylor, Loughborough in 1893, and were only the second ring (after Norton, Sheffield) to be tuned by the ‘Simpson Principle’.” In fact the bells were cast in […]