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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Andrew Aspland wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>> </FONT><TT>Great list - some stats wo=
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investigating here. First none in Yorks or<BR>> Lancs, second more=
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numbers of bells than average?, more unringable than<BR>> average? etc.=
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etc.</TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT>What about Lowgate, Hull?</TT></DIV><TT></TT><TT>
<DIV><BR>> I would disagree with the tuning details - it was always=20
misleading to refer<BR>> to a peal of bells as 1-5 of an 8 since they=20
weren't, aren't, and are never<BR>> likely to be an eight.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Agreed. Why can't we use the names of the =
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modes to describe them, and if they form no diatonic scale label them 'out =
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tune', rather than using haphazard labels such as 'minor six', '1-5 of 8', =
etc,=20
which in reality can mean pretty much whatever you want them to! Labels suc=
h as=20
'lydian five', 'minor six' (meaning minor and only minor, unlike at present=
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far more precise. If people don't understand the musical modes half a page =
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the front could explain them. I can really see no need to 'dumb it down' to=
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extent that the descriptions become meaningless.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>David</FONT></DIV>
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