Morn’n Everyone!
I figured since there is some activity here, I’ll ask this question over here instead of on Facebook.. (i’m there, but I’m very eh on it, since it does a poor job of making archived conversation accessible.
So as the subject mentions I run into an issue with a few bells that grab my gloves. They're Malmark bells, G3 to B3 and they’re older. The hand guards show New Britain, PA and the handles for the accidentals have the sharp on one side and the flat on the other, so I’m guessing they were made between 1978 and 1985 per
https://www.malmark.com/about-us/
What happens is as I hold them my glove gets stuck in between the bit of the handle and the handguard. I don’t have this problem with any other bells except these five. (On the low end have a new C3, an F3, which I frequently play. And I’ve played every bell in four octaves on both Malmark and Schulmerich, so I don’t think its me. ;-) )
I’m curious if anyone has any suggestions on how to prevent this from happening? They generally seem to be assembled pretty well, but I’m curious if perhaps its a design issue with the bells of that era, and new handles, handguards, and yokes would fix the issue? Though that seems like a fair bit of money to fix this.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
Nick