Bell recordings collection – The Sound of Bells

Here are statistics by founder and date of my collection of bell recordings:

Founder	Date unknown	Before 1300	1301 -1350	1351 -1400	1401 -1450	1451 -1500	1501 -1550	1551 -1600	1601 -1650	1651 -1700	1701 -1750	1751 -1800	1801 -1850	1851 -1900	1901 -1950	1951 -2000	2001 -2050	Total
Taylor family	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	96	611	879	469	195	2261
Whitechapel foundries	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	3	0	55	154	312	429	388	436	107	1898
Gillett & Co	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	52	664	42	0	759
Rudhall family	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	275	88	36	0	0	0	0	424
Warner	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	294	73	0	0	382
Eijsbouts	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	234	23	261
William Dobson	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	222	0	0	0	0	229
Harrington (tubular)	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	116	68	0	0	193
Bochumer Verein	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	79	57	0	145
Naylor-Vickers	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	139	0	0	0	142
Pennington family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	16	10	57	13	0	0	0	0	105
Knight family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	49	21	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	101
Van Aerschodt	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	88	3	0	0	98
Hemony	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	92	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	94
Alfred Bowell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	82	0	0	82
Petit & Fritsen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	16	51	71
Evans family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	41	27	0	0	0	0	0	69
Bilbie family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	40	3	0	0	0	0	67
Purdue family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	38	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	64
John Briant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	45	0	0	0	0	62
Bagley family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	45	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	61
Oldfield	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	42	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	57
Barwell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	34	19	0	0	53
Paccard	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	44	0	52
Richard Keene	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	30	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	52
Eldridge family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	15	30	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	52
Llewellins & James	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	37	11	0	0	49
Harrison family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	22	0	0	0	0	40
Graye family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	36
Carr	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	12	0	0	36
Smith	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	16	0	1	0	6	0	0	35
Watts	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	22	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	34
Hedderley	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	26	4	0	0	0	0	0	34
Higby or Bowditch	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	18	30
Thomas Osborn	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	27	1	0	0	0	0	28
Schilling	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	18	0	24
Joseph Hatch	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	22
Hodson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	22
Michiels	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	10	0	21
John Wallis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20
Wells family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	8	0	0	0	0	20
Chandler	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	12	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	20
Thomas Bayley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	0	0	0	0	0	19
Blews	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	0	0	0	19
Van Bergen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	12	0	18
John Darbie	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18
Eayre	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	14	0	0	0	0	0	17
Bristol Foundry	0	0	0	6	3	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17
Edward Arnold	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	0	0	0	0	0	17
Exeter Foundry	1	0	0	5	6	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16
James Bartlet	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15
Grassmayr	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	8	2	15
Henry Penn	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	14
Newcombe	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14
Robert Catlin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	13
John Draper	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13
McShane	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	0	0	13
Wokingham Foundry	0	0	1	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12
Thomas Blackbourn	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	11
Brasyers of Norwich	0	0	0	0	2	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11
Wilnar family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11
Westley Group	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	11
Other	4	3	8	23	56	54	41	47	102	93	104	54	37	43	69	40	21	799
Unknown	193	22	6	10	5	5	1	9	5	4	1	4	4	4	15	2	0	290
Totals	250	25	15	51	74	79	45	107	391	489	639	564	808	1908	2415	1400	428	9688

The founders listed explicitly are those for which I have 10 recordings or more. The founders are grouped, so that ‘Taylor family’ includes all members of the Taylor family and their successors casting at Oxford, Buckland Brewer and Loughborough. ‘Whitechapel foundries’ includes all founders casting at the Whitechapel sites from Robert Mot in the 1570s to the Whitechapel Bellfoundry until its closure. The list of people founding in Whitechapel was taken from pages 117 – 119 of Elphick’s Sussex Bells and Belfries. Other founders are similarly grouped.