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It is as much to do with the profile of the bell, I think, as with the
different metal. The steel bells I have looked at closely have had very
little if any swelling inside at the bottom, where you would expect a
sound-bow. Again, it is the profile rather than the metal which gives most
steel bells such awful partial tones, with wildly sharp hums. James
Harrison achieved a similar effect - very light bells for their note - with
bell metal.
Harrison did it by making the bells extremely short-waisted compared to the=
ir diameter, though.
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