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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=124523011-25012005>Was
the work done in the tower? If so, the exact weights given for the front six,
presumably from the 1947 retuning, will no long be
correct.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=124523011-25012005>Andrew
Bull</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> nigelsdtaylor
[mailto:nigeltaylor@k...]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 24 January 2005
13:46<BR><B>To:</B> bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Bell
Historians] Southwark cathedral<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><TT><BR>The front 6 did
have canons until the 1965 rehang, and 11, 10, 9, and <BR>8 had false staples
which were removed, and the bells drilled for <BR>independent staples.<BR>When
the bells were tuned, the nominal of the tenor was only lowered <BR>a few
cycles to 476 Hz., this was the minimum amount of flattening <BR>(given that
the bells are on a fairly thin scale) sufficient to lower <BR>the hum to a
flat 7th. The pitch is slightly flat of old English <BR>concert (Bb=481), and
sharp of modern, international pitch <BR>(Bb=466.2). There was then, no
question of tuning the bells to be as <BR>flat or flatter than St.
Pauls.<BR>Nigel Taylor <BR><BR><BR><BR></TT><!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --></BLOCKQUOTE>
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