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	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	83	592	851	442	195	2172
Whitechapel foundries	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	3	0	53	151	282	392	334	416	99	1741
Gillett & Co	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	45	649	41	0	736
Rudhall family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	226	77	36	0	0	0	0	363
Warner	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	257	62	0	0	328
Eijsbouts	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	233	22	259
William Dobson	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	157	0	0	0	0	159
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
Hemony	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	92	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	94
Knight family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	48	15	28	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
Van Aerschodt	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	63	3	0	0	73
Petit & Fritsen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	16	51	71
Purdue family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	38	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	63
Pennington family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	8	6	39	1	0	0	0	0	60
Bagley family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	43	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	58
Oldfield	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	42	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	55
Bilbie family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	34	2	0	0	0	0	54
Richard Keene	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	30	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	52
Paccard	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	43	0	51
John Briant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	45	0	0	0	0	49
Evans family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	26	22	0	0	0	0	0	49
Llewellins & James	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	35	10	0	0	46
Eldridge family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	12	26	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	42
Barwell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	26	15	0	0	41
Harrison family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	22	0	0	0	0	40
Smith	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	15	0	0	0	6	0	0	33
Carr	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	8	0	0	32
Graye family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	32
Watts	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	19	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	31
Higby or Bowditch	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	18	30
Hedderley	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	4	0	0	0	0	0	29
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
Michiels	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	10	0	21
Hodson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21
Chandler	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	12	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	20
Wells family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	8	0	0	0	0	19
Thomas Bayley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	0	0	0	0	0	19
John Darbie	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18
Van Bergen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	12	0	18
Eayre	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	14	0	0	0	0	0	17
Blews	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	0	0	0	16
Grassmayr	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	8	2	15
Newcombe	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	5	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
Other	3	3	7	34	67	71	43	50	137	104	122	65	32	41	74	40	32	925
Unknown	178	11	4	7	5	5	1	8	5	4	1	3	4	3	7	1	0	247
Totals	212	14	11	41	72	76	45	101	374	458	547	494	681	1651	2214	1349	419	8759

The founders listed explicitly are those for which I have around 15 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.