-------------------------------1122985081 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 =20 In a message dated 02/08/2005 13:08:39 GMT Standard Time,=20=20 mike@... writes: A friend of mine has bought a set of 8 bells from P & F, tenor around=20=20 1.5cwt. He intends to hang them in a new garage - eventually. (Cost of=20 the bells is about =A35.5k - should you want a set yourself!) They are tuned as one would expect, except that each has, IIRC, 3=20 vertical "tuning" marks 2/3" long about half way up the bell, spaced=20 out around the circumference. To my untrained eye there was no pattern=20 in the spacing, some being quite close to another. Is this intended to = =20 eliminate some "wobble"? Is it a standard Dutch tuning method? Mike I am told that is fairly standard in the carillon industry - it can=20 eliminate a wobble in a particular frequency. I have seen it in eijsbouts = bells also,=20 and even a fairly modern Taylor bell.=20 =20 Matthew =20 Matthew Higby & Company Ltd, Church Bell Engineers, Jasmine Cottage, The Street, Chilcompton, Bath, BA3 4HN. www.bell-hangers.com -------------------------------1122985081 Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
In a message dated 02/08/2005 13:08:39 GMT Standard Time,=20 mike@... writes:
= A friend=20 of mine has bought a set of 8 bells from P & F, tenor around=20
1.5cwt.  He intends to hang them in a new garage - eventually. (= Cost=20 of
the bells is about =A35.5k - should you want a set yourself!)
<= BR>They=20 are tuned as one would expect, except that each has, IIRC, 3
vertical= =20 "tuning" marks 2/3" long about half way up the bell, spaced
out aroun= d the=20 circumference.  To my untrained eye there was no pattern
in the= =20 spacing, some being quite close to another.  Is this intended to=20
eliminate some "wobble"?  Is it a standard Dutch tuning=20 method?

Mike
I am told that is fairly standard in the carillon industry = - it=20 can eliminate a wobble in a particular frequency. I have seen it in eijsbou= ts=20 bells also, and even a fairly modern Taylor bell.
 
Matthew
 
Matthew Higby & Company Ltd,
Churc= h Bell=20 Engineers,
Jasmine Cottage,
The Street,
Chilcompton,
Bath,
B= A3=20 4HN.

www.bell-hangers.com
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