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Still awaiting finalisation. this will be a stand alone library as well as being available as part of the "big organ".

A ring of 8 bells based on F#. The bells are situated in one of the highest parish churches in England at 1200' above sea level. 

These bells were originally sampled for use by the BBC in the Ives Festival held at the Barbican in London and broadcast on Radio 3.

The ring is quite well known and is considered to be particularly fine. We spent considerable time in finding a ring suitable for sampling since most are to be found in the centre of towns where traffic and other noise makes it impossible to achieve an usable sample. Ringing bells in the middle of the night is generally not accepted. Initially, we tried sampling the bells as struck by a leather hammer but this was not effective.

The only way in which we could achieve the true sound of a ringing bell was to allow each bell to fall and strike as they would in real life and hope that we would not catch a second strike as the bell stopped swinging. This required great skill by the bell ringer. We have also included some noise samples of the frame, pulleys and ropes which can be used as required. 

The samples will be presented as follows:-

Straight 8 bell set

Chromatic Octave bell set

Quasi Carillon

Action Noise

Pricing

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