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<DIV><SPAN class=619374608-24022007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Are
you sure that this is not clocking damage, & someones filed the edges in the
hope that it will make the bells sound better?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>GAD</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Richard Offen<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 24, 2007 8:36
AM<BR><B>To:</B> bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Bell
Historians] An Unusual Method of Tuning<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P>Over the past couple of years I have often stood at the bus stop
<BR>opposite Perth (WA) Town Hall and winced as the clock sounded the
<BR>quarters on a pair of miserable sounding little bells. I had always
<BR>assumed that these two bells sounded so horrible because they were
<BR>cast by Robert Stainbank in 1868 – not exactly Whitechapel'<WBR>s greatest
<BR>period, especially for small bells (the hour bell isn't too
bad)!<BR><BR>Last Wednesday, Chris Pickford and I were given the opportunity
to <BR>inspect the Town Hall clock and bells and I discovered that I
<BR>couldn't actually blame Robert Stainbank for the strange tone of the
<BR>two quarter bells. <BR><BR>We were surprised to discover that there are
large lumps out of the <BR>soundbows of both the quarter bells, apparently
removed (the edge on <BR>the second bell having been filed smooth) in an
attempt to tune them <BR>rather than caused by accidental damage. No wonder
the bells have <BR>an incredibly `wobbly' tone when struck!<BR><BR>I have put
a photograph of the second quarter bell on the photos <BR>section of this list
to illustrate this odd method of tuning.<BR><BR>Has anyone come across this
unconventional way of tuning anywhere <BR>before?
<BR><BR>Richard<BR><BR></P></DIV><!--End group email --></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>