Up the Tower of Derby Cathedral

I was asked to assist in the filming of a virtual tour of the tower of Derby Cathedral, and this is the finished product. If you have any suggestions on how to improve it, please put them in the comments below.

The bird seen from the roof is one of the Cathedral's resident Perigrine Falcons. They nest on the tower, and we were lucky enough to film this one a few moments before it flew over to the Jury's Inn you can also see from the roof.

Derby Cathedral has a lovely set of 10 bells, the oldest in the world, and they go really well. Well, most of them do.
There are three churches in Derby with bells; the Cathedral, St Peter's (8) and St Luke's (8).

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[simonbellringer]

When you were ringing the front 6 at about 2:48, the second showed up badly, it sounded awful!! They are lovely as a 10 judging by this though, and why is it the older tenors which are the lightest tenors to strike C#? There is Purton's 1720s tenor at 20cwt (though it was originally more like 25cwt in all fairness!!) Tring's 18cwt Tenor from 1695, and this Tenor from 1520 in C#!!

[8spliced]

@simonbellringer The 10 are lovely, the front six not so, but we had no choice; not enough bodies! The background is all 10, so they are included and sound excellent (though the second still doesn't sound quite right and never has done). The C# thing is quite interesting... must be a popular note back then!

[simonbellringer]

@8spliced Could have rung the back 6!! They would sound lovely!! AND we wouldn't have to listen to that dodgy 2nd...

[8spliced]

@simonbellringer Could have. But didn't. So tough :-P

[irkibby]

Oldest ring of 10 bells in the world.

[8spliced]

@irkibby Yeah, I kinda said that already... :-P

[simonbellringer]

@8spliced Next time!! :P

[SrWilson3s]

One my favorite rings of 10 ive rung :) also the clock has a carillon!

[irkibby]

It's a correction. The way your blurb reads is that Derby Cathedral has the oldest ring of bells in the world, which is not really true...

[simonbellringer]

These are a nice sounding 10!! Sound a lot heavier than 19cwt!!