Magic of Making - Church Bells

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  • @virajbhoite7826
    @virajbhoite7826 6 років тому +20

    Masters of craftsmanship. Beautiful music of bells. I really love it.

  • @simonstclare
    @simonstclare 4 роки тому +8

    I enjoyed the contrast between the enthusiasm of the narrator and the bored expressions on the faces of the foundry workers.

    • @coastermad13
      @coastermad13 4 роки тому +1

      Trust me, the novelty wears off after a while 😂😂 (I speak from past and current experience)

  • @mpetersen6
    @mpetersen6 4 роки тому +20

    Having turned a fair number of bronze bearings over the years I can just imagine the sound in the shop when they are taking cuts.

  • @alanhelton
    @alanhelton 4 роки тому +25

    While living in the German town of Rattlesdorf, there was a cathedral down the street in a town called Ebin and they had similar bells. What a joy it was to hear them ring. I miss Bavaria very much, and for these are one reason, the glorious bells.

    • @lindley345
      @lindley345 4 роки тому +4

      Yea i miss living in Germany myself and visiting nearby towns and cities and hearing the bells. Such a beautiful sound in person.

    • @DesignsmithTV
      @DesignsmithTV 4 роки тому +2

      Absolutely! I loved hearing the bells everyday in Pfaffing! Basically everywhere around Germany 🇩🇪.

  • @anubratachakraborty1370
    @anubratachakraborty1370 4 роки тому +6

    The last minute was amazing.... By hearing the church bells I felt that Christmas is little ahead!

    • @EngPheniks
      @EngPheniks 3 роки тому +1

      makes you wanna jump out of your bed, do a little dancing and say, "Christmas socks!" 🧦🧸

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape 2 роки тому

      @@EngPheniks no.

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape 2 роки тому

      Hell of a hobby. I’d love to have a hand ringable one just to play with.

  • @fewgrain4245
    @fewgrain4245 6 років тому +15

    Loved this as a child. Still have the CDs. I think glass was my favourite

  • @station30122
    @station30122 4 роки тому +470

    UA-cam is getting real comfortable with the dual non skippable ads..

    • @engineergaming4295
      @engineergaming4295 4 роки тому +11

      How are you top comment when you have one like

    • @station30122
      @station30122 4 роки тому +35

      @@engineergaming4295 bc I'm talking about the real issues we're all thinking about. Lol jk I have no idea

    • @HennieFokJaaaPlett
      @HennieFokJaaaPlett 4 роки тому +8

      I agree Ugot Steve, it's insane

    • @bcarm16
      @bcarm16 4 роки тому +14

      UA-cam vanced for all my android brothers. No ads, no problems

    • @drivestowork
      @drivestowork 4 роки тому +27

      They're even stopping music videos in the middle to play ads now!!! 🤬🤬🤬
      If UA-cam is trying to piss off EVERYONE: the audience, the content creators, even the advertisers... They're doing a fantastic job! 😡

  • @christopherdean1326
    @christopherdean1326 4 роки тому +26

    Whitechapel Bell foundry has now closed after 450 years. The father of a friend of mine used to work there as a carpenter/joiner.

    • @AndyFromBeaverton
      @AndyFromBeaverton 4 роки тому +4

      Why don't they put a nice smooth finish on all the bells?
      Terrible news about the foundry. Hopefully someone will step up.

    • @christopherdean1326
      @christopherdean1326 4 роки тому +10

      @@AndyFromBeaverton The only way to put a nice shiny finish on the bells, is to add or remove metal. This will affect the sound of the bell. Much more important to sound nice than look nice. They did sell nicely polished hand bells in the shop, but they were of a different scale.
      Someone has "stepped up" when last I heard. Sadly, they had "stepped up" to turn it all into a hotel for hipsters.

    • @jeffreyyoung4104
      @jeffreyyoung4104 4 роки тому +4

      @@christopherdean1326 a bunch of ding-a-lings...

    • @joedapro555
      @joedapro555 4 роки тому +5

      A lost art. Sad.

    • @Steven_Rowe
      @Steven_Rowe 5 місяців тому

      MY dad worked there as bell hanger until 1972, thrn we ,over to Aus.
      I knew just about everybody in the bell foundry because of dad, I also worked there in school holidays.
      Harry Weedon and Ron Brown were carpenters there.

  • @simongee8928
    @simongee8928 4 роки тому +56

    Agree. The narrator sounds like an enthusiast bachelor uncle addressing his five year old nephews & nieces.

    • @someoneontheinternetuvenev6268
      @someoneontheinternetuvenev6268 3 роки тому

      @Richard Rootless SAME AHAHAHHA

    • @EngPheniks
      @EngPheniks 3 роки тому +2

      the bellringers are playing the tune that makes Mr. Bean jump out of his bed and dance on Christmas morning.

  • @robertgift
    @robertgift 6 років тому +44

    I would love to buy a bell and try tuning it. Tuning is a very complicated process. Example: In a C-2 carillon bell, they tune the bell to have have the partials (harmonics) be C-1 Hum tone , C-2 Strike note, Eb-2 Tierce, G-2 Quint, C-3 Octave. Raising or lowering one partial to bring it into precise tune also affects other partials and in differing amounts.
    53 replicas of the Liberty Bell were cast in France (I forget which foundry) and one donated to each state.
    Unlike the Liberty Bell, the replicas were tuned. (I recall F-natural.) Oureplica was in a metal frame and unable to be rung.
    For Colorado's Bicentennial, 1986, I convinced the governor's office to release it. Theyen had a ceremony and the governor pulled the rope to swing it and it finally started to ring!
    On infrequent occasions that I was driving by, it was usually swinging from someone having earlier moved it.
    Someone reported it doing 360s. The 2,000 lbell could kill someone doing that, so they immobilized it as before.

    • @tereziapalek3725
      @tereziapalek3725 4 роки тому +1

      😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

  • @dawson9507
    @dawson9507 4 роки тому +12

    It’s amazing to think of how many bells were made by Britain and sent to other countries. Like the Chicago and New York Carillon bells were made by Britain (18.5 to 20 Ton bell) and even the iconic “Big Ben” back in 1859.

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape 2 роки тому

      Grassmayr made more and is still in business. I’ve seen their bells in person throughout Asia at Buddhist temples and 1 Japanese shrine.

    • @Steven_Rowe
      @Steven_Rowe 5 місяців тому

      The Chicago bells and the Newyork bells were cast By Gillett and Johnston of Croydon.

  • @Dantom_Saisu
    @Dantom_Saisu 10 місяців тому +4

    idk why i was so addicted watching bells when i was a child

  • @hugoschmeisser2484
    @hugoschmeisser2484 4 роки тому +6

    this is like "how it's made" dr Seuss edition. I love it

  • @vilstef6988
    @vilstef6988 4 роки тому +6

    The second largest bell in the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Carillon at the University of Chicago is colloquially known as Big Ben because it is 13.5 tons like the famous bell in Queen Elizabeth Tower. It is tuned to D Major.

  • @arnaldoantoniovalentimarna2532
    @arnaldoantoniovalentimarna2532 4 роки тому +6

    Soy de Brazil. Eso era lo que más quería yo saber, cómo es echo las campanas. Todo muy bonito. Mucha ingeniería. Mucha dedicación a este tipo de trabajo. Felicitaciones. A mí me gustó mucho.

  • @johnakaoldguy3158
    @johnakaoldguy3158 4 роки тому +16

    The next logical recommendation for UA-cam after this video should be Johnnie Carson and Jack Webb and their ‘Copper Clapper Caper’ routine. A true classic! 😁

  • @josephastier7421
    @josephastier7421 Рік тому +1

    4:00 Finally a description of horsepower in easy to understand terms.

  • @mwolfe1486
    @mwolfe1486 4 роки тому +84

    I can just hear the narrator's mustache from his voice

  • @ffjsb
    @ffjsb 4 роки тому +10

    Uh, the USA has several cast bell manufacturers still today. Bells can last hundreds of years, and few churches are built with them now, that's why there aren't many manufacturers anymore.

    • @lexpee
      @lexpee 4 роки тому

      The most old early bells in America are made in the Netherlands and also in France.

    • @LarryH54
      @LarryH54 4 роки тому

      Funny that church bells violate noise pollution regulations but cars and sound systems do not...

    • @i.robles5785
      @i.robles5785 4 роки тому +1

      @@LarryH54 Cars aren't religious in the same way bells are lol

  • @harrietnelson6048
    @harrietnelson6048 4 роки тому +6

    The church bells are fantastic.

  • @Grumpy_Granddad
    @Grumpy_Granddad 4 роки тому +21

    "There is but one place to get your bells made" - BUT - the largest bell foundry is located in Loughborough

    • @marfdasko
      @marfdasko 4 роки тому +4

      BY FAR the largest bell foundry in the world is Eijsbouts in the Netherlands.

    • @operator8014
      @operator8014 4 роки тому

      @TheRageMaker Mine.

    • @edf6607
      @edf6607 3 роки тому +2

      and Whitechapel has now closed

  • @operator8014
    @operator8014 4 роки тому +39

    They made the Liberty Bell? We'd like to fille a warranty claim.

    • @mikdavies5027
      @mikdavies5027 4 роки тому +7

      Operator 801. We would be pleased to replace it if it is returned in the original packing!

    • @mikdavies5027
      @mikdavies5027 4 роки тому +3

      @@cap5856 That sounds about right, but the current owners must show the original receipt!

    • @mikdavies5027
      @mikdavies5027 4 роки тому +3

      @@cap5856 Sorry, it needs to state categorically the date of purchase!

    • @mikdavies5027
      @mikdavies5027 4 роки тому +1

      @@cap5856 Are you really sure that this is the purchase date? I mean to say that that is very close to my mother-in-law's birthday date!

    • @mikdavies5027
      @mikdavies5027 4 роки тому +1

      @@cap5856 Hang on, I'll just check, our records go back to 1152, but, sorry, no, are you sure it came from us?

  • @randelealcoranarcilla642
    @randelealcoranarcilla642 6 років тому +5

    Since the return of Balangiga Bells went back in the Philippines on December 10, 2018 was arrive the three church bells was departure in Manila from U.S. Military Base in Okinawa, Japan until returned at St. Lawrence the Martyr Parish Church in Balangiga, Eastern Samar on December 15, 2018 was began the Holiday night mass on Christmas Season. These remembered on encounter incident in 1901 here in the town was fought the Filipino irregulars against the Americans. Just long live in the Philippines turns returned the Balangiga Bells here in this country and all the heroes only.

    • @randelealcoranarcilla642
      @randelealcoranarcilla642 6 років тому +2

      But returned the three church bells came back in the Philippines and again back to parish church in Balangiga, Eastern Samar almost 117 years ago and first time on ringing bells on Christmas Season on the Holiday Night Mass for Simbang Gabi and Misa de Gallo. Just done the bells are back now in the Philippines for Balangiga Bells.

  • @MrJitendra007
    @MrJitendra007 4 роки тому +2

    I like the Narrator... Very good.

  • @gregmarchegiani6656
    @gregmarchegiani6656 4 роки тому +27

    0:42 “I will just go for a coffeaaaaaaaaaah” killed by slag

    • @jamesbizs
      @jamesbizs 4 роки тому

      Lol. Yeah. Wtf was that about

    • @mattberg916
      @mattberg916 4 роки тому +1

      Ohhh... you know. What's a little molten slag dropped in your back pocket between friends? Right?

  • @MelindaGreen
    @MelindaGreen 6 років тому +173

    Anyone else notice the dead hand in the background at 1:45?

    • @Vandal_Savage
      @Vandal_Savage 6 років тому +15

      @Melinda Green - this was the comment i was looking for
      :)

    • @bd5154
      @bd5154 6 років тому +24

      That was a glove

    • @mr.polemikus4933
      @mr.polemikus4933 6 років тому +5

      it's a "sculpture", it rhymes with "culture".

    • @kishorekumar-sq2nu
      @kishorekumar-sq2nu 5 років тому +1

      S

    • @gerry343
      @gerry343 5 років тому

      @@bd5154 No, really?

  • @bigredc222
    @bigredc222 4 роки тому +33

    When a friend of mine got married they let me ring the church bell, I guess I was getting carried away, so the bride's mother gave me a dirty look, I let go of the rope and it shot up through the hole, then I really got a dirty look. I think of that every time I see a church bell.

    • @munkymittens
      @munkymittens 4 роки тому +3

      Lmfaooooo 😂😂😂 bro you legit made me laugh

    • @Railmover
      @Railmover 4 роки тому +2

      Made me piss meself

    • @steveoo410
      @steveoo410 4 роки тому +3

      The bride's mum is always a bitch

    • @AlexRednitz
      @AlexRednitz 4 роки тому +1

      @@steveoo410 Damn, I just sang your comment in Cartman's voice:
      Weeeeeeeeeell, Bride's mom is a bitch. She's a big fat bitch.
      She's a biggest bitch in a whole wide world

    • @josephleishman1982
      @josephleishman1982 4 роки тому +2

      You really must have been carried away. For the rope to go through the ceiling you need to have broken the stay!

  • @annointed1636
    @annointed1636 3 роки тому +1

    I just love the sounds of Bell's nice vid b. t. w

  • @tammieraines7307
    @tammieraines7307 Місяць тому +1

    Id like to see that ac dc bell being made would be very cool

  • @ericmcguire5469
    @ericmcguire5469 5 років тому +1

    As a scrapper, I'm drooling over all that brass

    • @ericmcguire5469
      @ericmcguire5469 5 років тому

      @Tabourba because I scrap metal and brass is worth a good penny in scrap. What's with being a douche?

  • @rolandangler
    @rolandangler 6 років тому +5

    Whitechapel now closed unfortunately. Still a major bell foundry at Loughborough. Older foundries around in Germany, Switzerland and various other European countries.

    • @manga12
      @manga12 5 років тому +2

      why did it finnaly close, the wiki said it was the oldest manufacturing company in great briton, 450 years is an emence amount of time, after all, and that kind of experiance doesn't come overnight making bells that long, nor can it be learned overnight? was it a lack of buisness? after all they did make all kinds of bells from big ones to hand bells.
      its so sad they closed such a long time it was around, I see an american company want s to make a bell themed cafe out of the old premises I hope we do a good job, and dont just cheapen it or wreckavate things like so many renovators like to do, and I hope they dont do to the cathedral of our lady in paris, notredame, I hope icons like these are built the way they were its no need to change something that is part and parcil of their ethos of culture.

  • @johnw2026
    @johnw2026 4 роки тому +2

    Its very rare to hear church bells in the US any more. To many people complain. A lot of churches still have them, but they go unrung, it's sad.
    I remember when I was a boy the large Methodist church in my grandparents home town rang bells every day. But no more.

  • @nunyabitnezz2802
    @nunyabitnezz2802 Рік тому +2

    I’m surprised that they don’t polish the bells to a high luster.

  • @NorroTaku
    @NorroTaku 2 роки тому

    very cheerful documentary
    I would have love this as a kid
    too thing I'm still a kid at heart ^^

  • @a_brit_in_tx9603
    @a_brit_in_tx9603 4 роки тому +126

    Narrator sounds like a children’s tv documentary for preschoolers

    • @Aeduo
      @Aeduo 4 роки тому +13

      it's kinda cute, charming. still informative, but this probably is intended to be digestible for a younger audience anyway, even if it's still interesting for adults.

    • @joegibes
      @joegibes 4 роки тому +2

      How It's Made meets David Attenborough meets PBS, I like it! Not too watered down but also not overly technical. Definitely enjoyable to watch

    • @tcmtech7515
      @tcmtech7515 4 роки тому +1

      Definitely needs to be redone by a Macho Man Randy Savage voice-over actor.

    • @williamavery9185
      @williamavery9185 4 роки тому

      Lol, so true.

    • @arkfan5345
      @arkfan5345 4 роки тому +1

      True but for things like this it suits well. I wouldnt want it any other way.

  • @prosanis1216
    @prosanis1216 6 років тому +1

    This narrator,my good Lord, besides that he has another job at Judy and Punch’s circus.

  • @RPKGameVids
    @RPKGameVids 5 років тому +13

    'Desperate to get their bells out' LOL!

  • @justpuca9378
    @justpuca9378 4 роки тому +10

    “Desperate to get there bells out” 😂😂

    • @bootylove2276
      @bootylove2276 4 роки тому

      pmsl 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍 ding dong

    • @PatrickPease
      @PatrickPease 4 роки тому +2

      The guys face 🥱😐

    • @davidteasdale1
      @davidteasdale1 4 роки тому +1

      He also said "Slaaaaaag" in the first few moments. He knew what he was doing.

    • @thuong8459
      @thuong8459 9 днів тому +1

      He means remove the clay covered bronze bell,get it?
      Oh by the way SICK BURN!!!

  • @dieselscience
    @dieselscience 6 років тому +35

    Was this narrated for 9 year olds?

    • @gazman1238
      @gazman1238 4 роки тому +5

      probably a video series for schools.

    • @davyt0247
      @davyt0247 10 місяців тому

      Probably a series for primary schools

  • @maikel371
    @maikel371 4 роки тому +7

    Everybody : full heat protective armor
    boss: t-shirt and sweatpants

    • @TestTubeBabySpy
      @TestTubeBabySpy 4 роки тому +1

      I worked as a furnace operator at a copper rod mill. I tried skimming the slag off the copper without my aluminum suit and my shirt started smoking, never try that sht again...

  • @treeguyable
    @treeguyable 4 роки тому +2

    I have a bell ringer joke that ends in the punchline saying: "I am not sure , but his face rings a bell. "

  • @KurtElliott
    @KurtElliott 7 років тому +26

    The Liberty Bell was last rang in 1976 but it sounded terrible and the crack grew even more so they will never ring it again, it would be nice if we had another one made that is not cracked.

    • @arthurl.gallagher891
      @arthurl.gallagher891 7 років тому +3

      A lot of them were made and sent all over the US. There is a copy of the Liberty Bell at the State Capitol in Jackson MS.

    • @KurtElliott
      @KurtElliott 7 років тому

      Do they ever ring it?

    • @arthurl.gallagher891
      @arthurl.gallagher891 7 років тому

      I suppose.

    • @davidrakes3618
      @davidrakes3618 7 років тому +9

      I would like to see a digital scan of the liberty bell made all the damage from its history removed, a mold made and an exact copy of the original bell's metal used to cast the new bell so that the new bell will be as close as possible the original in looks and sound when it is rung.

    • @andreasenjo2625
      @andreasenjo2625 6 років тому

      Arthur L. Gallagher p

  • @TheEvertw
    @TheEvertw 4 роки тому +10

    "There is but one place in the world"
    Bollocks. The largest bell foundry in the world is Eijsbouts in the Netherlands.

    • @Psalm146-2
      @Psalm146-2 4 роки тому +1

      He didn’t say “any bells” - he said “bells like these” - so technically he’s correct

    • @TheEvertw
      @TheEvertw 4 роки тому

      @@Psalm146-2 It wasn't the "bells like these" bit that is wrong, it is the "there is but one place in the world" bit.

  • @rhsking05
    @rhsking05 4 роки тому +5

    1:39 and I was hoping the narrator was going to transition into a Dr. Seuss style of a tale. Sadly he did not.

  • @TheRantingCabbie
    @TheRantingCabbie 5 років тому +3

    I'm waiting for the narrator to say "Stanley was faced with many options of which bell to choose and whether he should ring one of them or all of them".

  • @984francis
    @984francis 5 років тому

    Great narration!

  • @abundantYOUniverse
    @abundantYOUniverse 5 років тому

    This was simply fantastic.

  • @Kotikjeff
    @Kotikjeff 4 роки тому +7

    I stood next to the Czar’s Bell in the Kremlin. Enormous. It was never rung as it cracked after a fire.

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape 2 роки тому

      They need to just move on an recast it already so it can be rung and placed in a tower as originally planned. It’s been 400 years.

    • @Kotikjeff
      @Kotikjeff 2 роки тому +1

      @@kishascape That’s not possible. The original is a piece of history.

  • @albertcyphers1532
    @albertcyphers1532 4 роки тому +4

    This is the foundry that cast the Liberty bell. That's something I think I'd keep quiet. It cracked the first time it rang

    • @who-gives-a-toss_Bear
      @who-gives-a-toss_Bear 4 роки тому

      One would think the reason the Liberty Bell cracked is the same reason Big Ben cracked.
      The fool that installed Big Ben used an oversized clapper, outside design specification.
      Just hit it with a bigger hammer was his mantra.
      To mean to buy a bigger bell.

  • @brucemcnally3924
    @brucemcnally3924 5 років тому

    Wonderful. And I did notice the hand...

  • @JKCDLT
    @JKCDLT 4 роки тому

    Dudes just wearing a t-shirt and sweatpants pouring a crucible, absolute legend.

    • @__seeker__
      @__seeker__ 4 роки тому

      Agreed. You should see the metal artisans of south India. Shirtless and barefoot with no gloves or any other protective gear

    • @btrswt35
      @btrswt35 4 роки тому +1

      He's got bronze balls, so it's all good.

  • @cowboy_broke
    @cowboy_broke 4 роки тому +1

    This foundry casted the liberty bell. The liberty bell is famous for being cracked! 😂

  • @bassambouhamad7935
    @bassambouhamad7935 3 роки тому +1

    Beautiful .

  • @Revdrwilliam
    @Revdrwilliam 11 місяців тому +2

    Does anyone know the church that was in the video?

    • @wolfgangsbrother6118
      @wolfgangsbrother6118 6 місяців тому

      The church of Saint Mary the virgin altar mesham

    • @Revdrwilliam
      @Revdrwilliam 6 місяців тому +1

      @@wolfgangsbrother6118 thank you sooooo much I couldn’t find it anywhere 😀

  • @patriciajrs46
    @patriciajrs46 5 років тому +1

    I wish you or they would have rung the one they said was just finished. They do sound wonderful. Thanks.

    • @vilstef6988
      @vilstef6988 4 роки тому

      There are a lot of UA-cam videos on Campaniles and Carillons. My favorite one is Carillon (A tower filled with 100 tons of bells.) This is about the University of Chicago Carillon, the 2nd largest in the world. There is a carillon in my city and another in a University town 30 miles north. There are 600 or more around the world, most of them being in Belgium and The Netherlands.

  • @szymongorczynski7621
    @szymongorczynski7621 5 років тому +11

    Unfortunately, Whitechapel Bell Foundry is no more!

    • @iamcarbonandotherbits.8039
      @iamcarbonandotherbits.8039 5 років тому +7

      If what you say is true then that's another art lost to this country. There seems to be a lot of old British trade's dying out over the last 30 years or so.

  • @Mumblix
    @Mumblix 4 роки тому +3

    Oi, Nigel! You missed the damn wheelbarrow again!

  • @mariieett010
    @mariieett010 Місяць тому

    blast from the past

  • @brettpalmer1770
    @brettpalmer1770 7 років тому +94

    That horse power fact was random.

    • @JoeyLovesTrains
      @JoeyLovesTrains 6 років тому +3

      Brett Palmer where does anyone learn something like that?!

    • @AdrianJNyaoi
      @AdrianJNyaoi 6 років тому +2

      more like a fairy tale

    • @tommythenice6799
      @tommythenice6799 6 років тому +8

      English humor at its finest....

    • @pwnmeisterage
      @pwnmeisterage 5 років тому +9

      One horsepower = one horse needed to lift a large elephant over the head of a small child in one minute.
      This is what happens when you avoid SI/metric units.

    • @TerryClarkAccordioncrazy
      @TerryClarkAccordioncrazy 4 роки тому +1

      Like an inch is 3 barley corns.

  • @I_Rove_Rice
    @I_Rove_Rice 3 роки тому +1

    This guy should narrate a children’s fairytale movie.

  • @Labialglocke
    @Labialglocke 3 роки тому

    Very nice video!

  • @paulkocyla1343
    @paulkocyla1343 4 роки тому

    Another ancient definition of horsepower I heard was the power needed to pull one cut tree of a certain size through the woods.
    This at least took into accout the case of a Chuck Norris like horse :)
    I´m glad we established the SI system.

  • @TheScreamingFrog916
    @TheScreamingFrog916 4 роки тому +4

    I want to take another whack at this.......
    I wonder if a vicar has ever had his bell rung by the clapper?
    OK really gone this time LOL

  • @audinos1840
    @audinos1840 7 років тому +18

    There are many bellfoundries besides Whitechapel.

    • @dhtelevision
      @dhtelevision 6 років тому +2

      Audinos For example, Taylor’s of Loughborough

    • @bellaboo9632
      @bellaboo9632 6 років тому

      Yeah

    • @luukieluuk_
      @luukieluuk_ 6 років тому +4

      And also royal eijsbouts in Holland

    • @szymongorczynski7621
      @szymongorczynski7621 5 років тому +1

      Whitechapel is no more.

    • @hilarygrubb2665
      @hilarygrubb2665 4 роки тому

      @@szymongorczynski7621 Thank goodness they sound like buckets, Taylor’s of Loughborough were always the best in England!

  • @nord1486
    @nord1486 3 роки тому

    0:31 and Taylor’s of Loughborough. In fact, Whitechapel BF’s closed now.

  • @maggs131
    @maggs131 4 роки тому +12

    I feel like this was meant as a segment for a teletubbies episode

    • @rimmersbryggeri
      @rimmersbryggeri 4 роки тому +1

      Sounds like someone trying to impersonate Terry Jones but not quite succeeding.

  • @VictoriaDuttonHughes
    @VictoriaDuttonHughes 6 років тому +11

    Desperate to get their bells out...love it 😂

  • @lorq3370
    @lorq3370 4 роки тому +5

    At the :47 mark, the guy is pouring molten metal in running pants, a t-shirt and a glove.

    • @TheRealWeirdoC
      @TheRealWeirdoC 4 роки тому +2

      At 0:41, the guy is just casually chucking a ladle of molten slag in the general direction of a wheelbarrow and missing completely, while a coworker with no PPE is like 6 feet from the landing zone. You could fill a warehouse with the f#@%$ these guys don't give.

  • @coastermad13
    @coastermad13 4 роки тому +2

    For those still barely interested, Whitechapel has closed down now but John Taylor & Co in Loughborough, Leicestershire are still going. Plus there are a few other companies that re-hang old bells and work in conjuction with foundries.
    Also Electric winches are still a luxury. Most are by hand. Or you can get compressed air powered ones too :)

  • @Chipanddale999
    @Chipanddale999 7 місяців тому

    Ty for teaching me about bells

  • @ringeradam4575
    @ringeradam4575 6 років тому +6

    Wait, was this recorded in 1999? Both sets of bells shown at 1:35 (for Tollard Royal and Charlton Churches) were cast then so there's no other possibility..

    • @fredmills368
      @fredmills368 5 років тому

      It must have been.

    • @extramite8
      @extramite8 Рік тому

      Defo 1999 the bells that are being rehung are ours at Masham

  • @Docstantinople
    @Docstantinople 4 роки тому

    This guys voice though. I feel like I’m watching an episode of animal kingdom and a lion is stalking a gazelle

  • @-Deena.
    @-Deena. 4 роки тому

    That was super chilling 🧡

  • @EngPheniks
    @EngPheniks 3 роки тому

    British and Germans have the best sounding bells in Europe especially when it comes to big Bourdon bells.

  • @glasslinger
    @glasslinger 5 років тому +1

    The churches here don't use their bronze bells. They have huge speakers mounted in the tower and amplifiers that play the bell sounds off of a CD in the office!

  • @robertosemenzato7063
    @robertosemenzato7063 2 роки тому

    Video molto bello! Complimenti

  • @randymclean1114
    @randymclean1114 5 років тому +1

    Copper, in addition to being an element, IS a base metal when alloyed with other metals (Zinc.....)

  • @OfficialMichaelTheCollector
    @OfficialMichaelTheCollector 2 роки тому +1

    Why do they use lava?

    • @DubElementMusic
      @DubElementMusic 2 роки тому +1

      they use lava so the aliens cant send their brainwaves through the bell

  • @TheScreamingFrog916
    @TheScreamingFrog916 4 роки тому

    Now I wonder...........if a vicar has ever been hit by the clapper?
    That certainly would "ring your bell".
    I'll let myself out now :-)

  • @happydeux2254
    @happydeux2254 4 роки тому +27

    Why does the guy doing the narration talk to me like I'm 5?

    • @TheScamr
      @TheScamr 4 роки тому +10

      Because this is informational for all ages and you can watch it with your kids.

    • @filadelfozuniga3411
      @filadelfozuniga3411 4 роки тому +1

      Cause u are

    • @who-gives-a-toss_Bear
      @who-gives-a-toss_Bear 4 роки тому +3

      It was made for a KIDS tv show.
      Why do you think that most of the detail was so basic that most adults would already know.

    • @tagfat
      @tagfat 4 роки тому

      @@who-gives-a-toss_Bear I was never so infantile as to need this kind of rubbish. Not at 10, nor at 8 or 5. Kids are not necessarily stupid. Neiter do they see rubish as a good replacement for information.

    • @ElectroNeutrino
      @ElectroNeutrino 4 роки тому +2

      @@tagfat Good for you.

  • @erickeller1982
    @erickeller1982 5 років тому +7

    The first bell ever made was by the Bell brothers. Ding and Dong.

    • @get-the-lead-out.4593
      @get-the-lead-out.4593 5 років тому

      that's a myth...it was actually Ding A. Ling in the 4th century China
      and just curiosity, is you're dad's name Robert/Bob and mom's name is Gloria? Just wondering I have a cousin whose name is Eric Keller

    • @vilstef6988
      @vilstef6988 4 роки тому

      In my city, the Bell Brothers do heating, air conditioning and plumbing. I don't know if they have nicknames.

  • @deograsiasdrijo2170
    @deograsiasdrijo2170 3 роки тому

    how much does it cost for a church bell to be sent to NTT, Indonesia

  • @thecommonlinnetsilsedelang820
    @thecommonlinnetsilsedelang820 4 роки тому +3

    When I was six years old I ran under the bell at the church I go to and busted my head open. Fourteen years later I still have the scar in the centre of my forehead.

  • @knightlypoleaxe2501
    @knightlypoleaxe2501 4 роки тому +4

    After 450 years, Whitechapel Bell foundry has closed, leaving it to their business partner of 197 years to make bells.

  • @RotaryMarx
    @RotaryMarx Місяць тому

    I need a bell that sound evilly ominous. Put it in my garage and make the neighborhood question reality

  • @Rafaaa1111
    @Rafaaa1111 3 роки тому

    5:24
    Why is that bell stuck in the up position?

  • @charlesachurch7265
    @charlesachurch7265 4 роки тому +1

    Do I detect the dulcet tones o f Sir John Betjeman?

  • @parrisestatessouthernhomec3246
    @parrisestatessouthernhomec3246 5 місяців тому

    I love that sound

  • @pknaack1
    @pknaack1 4 роки тому +37

    The next time I need to lift a large elephant over the head of a child, I know that I really only need one horse. That'll save me some money on horses.

    • @voidremoved
      @voidremoved 4 роки тому

      Only if you need it done in a minute?

    • @chrishayes5755
      @chrishayes5755 4 роки тому

      God that part made me cringe

  • @jacovanloggerenberg
    @jacovanloggerenberg 4 роки тому +3

    Was that Freddy Kruger's hand in the back 1:47

  • @dieselscience
    @dieselscience 5 років тому +10

    I thought it was cleaned of slag with a can of Thot-B-Gone spray.

  • @anthonylangley8717
    @anthonylangley8717 3 роки тому +1

    That new bell looks like it already has a nice patina of bird poop on it.

  • @desireeedgington1007
    @desireeedgington1007 4 роки тому

    Robert Charles dutifully ordered the bell from Thomas Lester of the London bellfounding firm of Lester and Pack (known subsequently as the Whitechapel Bell Foundry)[4] for the sum of £150 13s 8d,[5] (equivalent to £23,850.62 today)[6] including freight to Philadelphia and insurance. It arrived in Philadelphia in August 1752. Norris wrote to Charles that the bell was in good order, but they had not yet sounded it, as they were building a clock for the State House's tower.[7] The bell was mounted on a stand to test the sound, and at the first strike of the clapper, the bell's rim cracked. Two local founders, John Pass and John Stow, offered to recast the bell. At Stow's foundry on Second Street, the bell was broken into small pieces, melted down, and cast into a new bell. The two founders decided that the metal was too brittle, and augmented the bell metal by about ten percent, using copper. The bell was ready in March 1753, and Norris reported that the lettering (that included the founders' names and the year) was even clearer on the new bell than on the old.
    Therefore, Whitechapel supplied the base metal only and at the time it was not known as the liberty bell until after 1776 some 23 years after the recasting.

  • @tomk3732
    @tomk3732 4 роки тому

    You can make your own bell from an old CO2 fire extinguisher - just cut off the bottom and add a clapper. It is laud enough that if you hit the "bell" with the clapper vigorously and are right near it your ears will ring for hours.

  • @hervatianimation3710
    @hervatianimation3710 3 роки тому +1

    What is the Church at 0:20

  • @tesseract8033
    @tesseract8033 6 років тому +1

    is it possible to make a bell from pure gold?

    • @geoffreypruitt1764
      @geoffreypruitt1764 6 років тому +1

      You *can* make a bell from pure gold, but A) there's a particular alloy of bronze that's considered best all around for sound quality and durability; and B) a pure gold bell would deform rapidly under the clapper.
      "approximately a 4:1 ratio of copper to tin (78% copper, 22% tin). This is a much higher tin component than that used in statuary bronze.
      A range of percentages of tin content can vary from 20 to 26%, depending on the founder who has arrived empirically at their own alloy ratio. It has been found that increasing the tin content increases the decay time of the bell strike, thus making the bell more sonorous. Taking into consideration overall properties, such as tensile strength, hardness, wear resistance, cast quality, sound, and cost, the optimum alloy can probably be obtained by having a type bronze composition as: ~20wt.%Sn, < 2wt.%Ni, < 1.5wt.%Pb, ~0.01wt.%P, < 1wt.%Sb, with balance of Cu," according to Wikipedia, is best. Look up "bell metal" if you're as geeky about it as I am...😁

  • @whatdoidonext2234
    @whatdoidonext2234 4 роки тому

    anyone notice the hand over the workers left shoulder at the 1:45 mark?

  • @michaeltichael
    @michaeltichael 4 роки тому

    I like this narrator

  • @josedacunhafilho
    @josedacunhafilho 3 роки тому

    My new favourote UA-cam channel!

  • @DaveDeVault
    @DaveDeVault 4 роки тому +12

    I wouldn't be telling anyone I cast the Liberty Bell. It cracked the first time it was rung. Just saying.

    • @psiklops71
      @psiklops71 4 роки тому +3

      It is uncertain how the bell came to be cracked; the damage occurred sometime between 1817 and 1846.

    • @richardcrompton6009
      @richardcrompton6009 4 роки тому +1

      Bellend