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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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m:</B>=20
<A title=3Dbells@k... href=3D"mailto:bells@k...">David & =
Mary=20
Kelly</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@yahoogroups=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 02, 2002 7:3=
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AM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Bell=20
recordings</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Everytime I think of something useful to add Bill get=
s there=20
first!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>All I can say is that I use a Camcorder and have foun=
d its=20
response to be excellant for the tonal analysis of bells.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>What might be even more surprising is that we have do=
ne some=20
bell analysis where the sound has been transmitted live over a mobile=20
telephone to our PC in the office (OK home) and that still produces very =
good=20
results for analysis. However the frequency range is limited to approxima=
tely=20
300-3500Hz so one can miss low and high partials.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Finally the work Bill has done in this field ceases t=
o amaze=20
me. He has taken our understanding of bells to a greater level. Keep it u=
p=20
Bill you are doing an excellant job.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>For those who are interested about bells, we (Keltek =
Trust)=20
have just acquired 9 ex-Trinity House buoy bells (see <A=20
href=3D"http://www.keltek.org">www.keltek.org</A> ). It don't think it wi=
ll be=20
too long before some are hung for full-circle ringing. Any one know of bu=
oy=20
bells being hung for ringing before?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Dave</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>I thought all buoys bell were hung for sounding by=20
swinging!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>GAD</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>