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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>I hope I don't get banned from the list for the subject=
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vibrators!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>A number of years ago when I tried different techniques=
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analysing the sound of a bell at St Michael with St Paul, Bath. As I didn't=
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still do not) have a set of tuning forks I used a high power output oscilla=
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connected to a solonoid to elecit the harmonic tones from a bell. The techn=
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was as I understood to be similar to using a tuning fork except the solonoi=
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acted as a variable frequency tuning fork tp produce sympathetic vibrations=
. I=20
swept the frequency range, or if truth were to be admitted the "expected"=20
frequency range for the partials. Sure enough I managed to get resonance an=
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duly noted the figures.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Some years later we had the bells re-tuned. Nigel Taylo=
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figures for the bells were generally similar to mine apart from one bell, t=
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Warner 7th where my figures for some of the partials were totally incorrect=
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What was wrong? the answer was simply that I was expecting a frequency in a=
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particular range and what I heard was resonance of a another partial being=
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excited by half the frequency! The actual frequency was no-where near the b=
and I=20
had swept! The moral of this story is that unless you really know what you =
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doing you can get incorrect results unless you use techniques that examine =
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SOUND of the bell. Bill Hibbert's <EM>Waveanal</EM> program does this super=
bly;=20
I beta tested his program against my own version using similar fourier anal=
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techniqes and found <EM>Waveanal</EM> to be accurate and very easy to use. =
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far I have found sound analysis programs to produce accurate and consistant=
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results - something I couldn't achieve using other means.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Dave</FONT></DIV>
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