Some Midland Chime Tunes described by WALTER PITCHFORD
Introduction with Recorded Illustrations from Daventry
This is the first of a new series that will be given monthly. Recorded chime tunes of various churches in the Midlands are to be broadcast, together with a history of each told by Walter Pitchford.
The barrel of Daventry Parish
Church, the subject of this evening's broadcast, dates from 1772. One of the folk songs in the chime-all the chimes are mechanically played, incidentally— will be sung by schoolboys.
Walter Pitchford is a lover of church chimes. He thinks that formerly they ' were regarded as a town ornament and distinction-as they are today in Belgium-but nowadays people seem to view them as a church ornament, and this denominational point of view is leading to their discontinuance in some places