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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Just voted and, well yes, the result so far are just wh=
at you=20
would expect from members of this list. In no way could they be regarded as=
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valid representative sample of the exercise!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>The problem is of course that Dove is not really a tech=
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document. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>It is a commercial product to some considerable=20
extent.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>The compilers therefore have to be wary of the feelings=
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views of their customers.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>If you weren't plugged in to the technical side of ring=
ing and=20
the Tenor weight at your local tower was changed on the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>say-so of some Anorak you'd never heard of without any=
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reference to your local parish I think you might be a little put =
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by it. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Therefore I think I can understand the compilers=20
position.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>It would be an enormous task for them to enter into=20
correspondence with every tower where an alteration is deemed necessary and=
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obviously not on.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Whether or not it might be possible for members of this=
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to create a consultative mechanisim to deal with alterations in bulk and as=
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John Baldwin I don't know? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>[Probably not! </FONT><FONT size=3D2>I</FON=
T><FONT=20
size=3D2>t would not be surprising to find that most on this list may be st=
rong on=20
the past but not so good at constructing the future. If you think about it,=
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compiling Dove is about constructing the future. (Fighting talk! Someone pr=
ove=20
me wrong:-)]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>On the subject of classification of 12's etc with incid=
entals=20
and extras it would be most helpful if the compilers could revert to the ol=
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standard which made perfect sense to the practitioners on these numbers&nbs=
p;and=20
stop inflicting this nonsense on us.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>A 12 with an extra treble and flat 6th is a 12 wit=
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light 10....... not a 13 or a 14. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>I say that even though I'm the only one daft enough to =
have=20
been persuaded to call a peal of Yorkshire 14 at St Margarets=20
Leicester!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>I would copy this to John Baldwin if I had his address =
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hand. Perhaps he is getting this correspondence?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT=20
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