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Bell tuner Girdar Vadukar tests the sound as he works to remove layers of metal from the interior of a 300 year old bell to retune it, in the John Taylor & Co. Bell foundry in Loughborough, central England on April 21, 2022. - The business is the world's largest working bell foundry and continues a line of bell founding which has been unbroken since the middle of the 14th Century when Johannes de Stafford was active only 10 miles from the site of the present foundry. Taylor's Bells produce single bells, peals of bells, chimes and carillons, as well as sets of musical handbells for customers worldwide. In 1881 Taylor's cast Great Paul, the largest British cast bell in Britain, for St Paul's Cathedral in London, weighing 17,002 kg. Taylor's Foundry pioneered the five tone principle of bell tuning in 1896, working on five principal harmonics known as the: hum, fundamental, tierce, quint and nominal, and their bells are tuned by hand. Bell founding is placed on the Heritage Crafts Association's Red List of critically endangered crafts. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty