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	609	879	467	195	2257
Whitechapel foundries	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	3	0	54	154	305	419	379	432	107	1866
Gillett & Co	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	47	656	41	0	745
Rudhall family	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	275	80	36	0	0	0	0	416
Warner	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	292	73	0	0	380
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	208	0	0	0	0	215
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
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
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
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	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	63
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	42	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	56
Barwell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	34	19	0	0	53
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
Llewellins & James	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	37	11	0	0	49
Eldridge family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	13	30	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	48
Harrison family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	22	0	0	0	0	40
Carr	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	12	0	0	36
Hedderley	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	26	4	0	0	0	0	0	34
Watts	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	22	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	34
Smith	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	16	0	0	0	6	0	0	34
Graye family	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	32
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	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21
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
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
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
Edward Arnold	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	0	0	0	0	0	17
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
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
McShane	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	0	0	13
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
Westley Group	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	11
Thomas Blackbourn	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	11
Wokingham Foundry	0	0	1	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
Other	2	3	8	20	55	54	41	47	101	92	103	54	34	42	61	40	21	778
Unknown	186	11	5	9	5	5	1	9	5	4	1	4	4	4	7	1	0	261
Totals	231	14	14	46	73	79	45	106	388	482	635	555	783	1747	2314	1391	428	9331

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.