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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>No, they wre tuned - see the article Chris refers=20
to. All very amusing. I believe that the two steel treble=
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later discarded (Where to ?) - one of which I had seen at St Peter, Eltham,=
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the right note, but too thin to make a proper job of it. It makes me =
think=20
that my contention that NV used to mass-produce their bells, and then fit=20
together the ones which at the time seemed to fit, may be correct.</FONT></=
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>I gather you've all been having a fine time with the Gr=
eat=20
Bell of Hatton Garden while I've been sunning it in the Channel Islands - a=
nd of=20
course looking at CI bells ! San Francisco was the biggest of all, se=
e my=20
article in the Christmass 2000 RW. Sadly believed no longer to=20
exist.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=3Dmike@m...=20
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 18 October 2002 23:35</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Hal=
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Merseyside</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>> I rang at and recorded Hale last nigh=
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my first visit since <BR>>the dedication in 1988. Does anyone have to =
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the reference to <BR>>the front page article in the RW describin=
g the=20
tuning of these <BR>> bells, sometime in the mid / late=20
eighties?<BR><BR>IFAIR it was the two steel bells there were at first add=
ed to=20
the <BR>front of the "original" 6 that were tuned. Were not the remaining=
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<BR>left as Vickers intend them?<BR><BR>Mike<BR><BR></TT><BR><BR><TT>This=
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