Bellringing at Cornhill, London

The bells of St. Michael, Cornhill, are known to be the 2nd worst ring of bells in the world. They are 42 cwt and sound awful.
This is because some of them were recast in the 60s and instead of casting good bells and retuning the rest, they actually cast the new bells to the profiles of the old bells and tuned the others to 'fit in' too. The Treble and 2nd are absurdley bad.
That said we did ring the light six (bells 3 to 8) and it was actually a good, characteristic ring of six!

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[simonbellringer]

OK, where are THE worst ring, if these are only second?

[Whittingtons]

@simonbellringer:... 2nd worst ring of 12 but not second worst ring in general.

People say that THE worst ring of 12 is Chelmsford Cathedral- a complete Warner 12!

[simonbellringer]

@Whittingtons OK, going on sound, I dont think Chelmsford are any worse, apart from the dodgy front ones...

I didnt like Chester Cathedral much though. THey were hard to ring, and didnt sound too great (judging by the front 8 - we didnt get 10 or 12!!)

[Whittingtons]

@simonbellringer The thing that makes Chelmsford the worst is the fact that you can get good ringing at Cornhill but Chelmsford can't be rung well and sound a little worse than Cornhill. Mind you Chelmsford have been rehung recently...

[timmeh1507]

@Whittingtons There is a video of Chelmsford from Mr Louiseisyourdog and they are being rung well, and sound quite reasonable!

[Whittingtons]

@timmeh1507

But they've been rehung recently so it will be much easier to get good ringing on them. Reasonable?!

[WrongAndHome]

@simonbellringer I agree with you on the tower, the only reason why the bells were moved over was because the dean at the time wanted to get his name on it!

[simonbellringer]

@WrongAndHome One to return to then!! Shocking tower Chester have thoughh... The new bells sound so much better, the tenor here is shocking!!

[hdzz]

worst sound in the world.

[WrongAndHome]

@simonbellringer Ringing at Chester Cathedral on the front does not sound good whether it be 5, 6, 8 or 10. The back 10 sound a lot better than the full 12.

[simonbellringer]

@1988OA Well, I only had the front 8, but they didnt leave a huge impact on me... the go wasnt brilliant, the sound wasnt wither, and as for THAT monstrosity of a tower.... ugghhhh!!

[1988OA]

@simonbellringer

Chester are an excellent 12 in my humble opinion. Certainly shouldnt be included with the like of these

[lunaticonthegrass111]

I went to Cornhill shortly before they were recast, and I didn't think they were that bad. In fatc I spoke to someone who'd been there just before they were recast, and he said that he was hoping they were awful, but though they wern't that bad. St. Paul's are worse that what Cornhill were! (P.S. I haven't heard the new bells yet, but I probably will one day.)

[SrWilson3s]

I look forward to hearing the new ring in full voice =)

[bellminsterboy]

I here these have now been test rung in the tower (31st may)

[KDowner94]

Ok I take my word back - this twelve were really awful - cant wait for the new ones