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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Indeed. RCO is also too modest to say that his
persuasive powers which led to lower of the bells in the tower in
1971 also contributed to the transformation. They can be heard on
Loveguide.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 19, 2007 12:11
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Tuning
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<P>--- In <A
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"Andrew Higson" <andrew-<BR>higson@...> wrote:<BR>><BR>> Quite by
coincidence also by Warners 1915 I've just done a tonal on:<BR>> <BR>>
7th - 191/451/472/ /781 - hum 38 cents flat, fundamental 249 cents
<BR>sharp<BR>> 8th - 172/387/425/ /698 - hum 25 cents flat, fundamental 179
cents <BR>sharp<BR>> <BR>> Not easy listening.<BR>> <BR>> Andrew
<BR><BR>I rest my case :-)<BR><BR>Sharp fundamentals seem to have been a
Warner trade mark, even with <BR>the bells they cast prior to their attempts
at harmonic tuning. <BR><BR>The two tenors at Tenterden (Kent), which are
Warner 1884, had <BR>horribly sharp fundamentals. When the bells were tuned in
1961, <BR>Whitechapel got them as near to an octave as they dared without
<BR>parting the crowns off. <BR><BR>Following the recent Settle incident,
members of this Group may <BR>remember the late Nick Davies reporting a
conversation he had with <BR>Bill Hughes about Tenterden. Bill had just done a
tonal and profile <BR>analysis of the ring and was pondering on what he could
do with the <BR>two tenors - breaking them up was not an option! Although not
to <BR>everyone's taste (I'm biased, I learnt to ring there!), the result of
<BR>tuning is a ring with a rather pleasing, if somewhat melancholy,
<BR>grandeur.<BR><BR>Richard<BR><BR></P></DIV><!--End group email --></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>