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St Andrew's bells rung 'incorrectly' for 129 years
Designed for swinging not striking; Cathedral now raising funds to send bells for restoration
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Melody Zaccheus
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For almost 130 years, St Andrew's Cathedral's caretakers have been ringing the eight bells in their belfry in a primitive fashion - using an iron clapper to beat the sides of the bronze contraptions. The chimes would ring for special occasions.
Little did they know that the bells, which were given to the cathedral in 1889 by the heirs of an English captain and cast in the same foundry as the bells of St Paul's Cathedral in London, were actually designed to be played by swinging instead of striking them.
