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<DIV><SPAN class=181241221-26032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
inscriptions on these bells are all rather bland and generic which suggests that
they were perhaps cast before they were destined for Petham. The old bells were
destroyed by fire in 1922 and the new bells came along remarkably
quickly!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=181241221-26032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I know
a little about this place - it is where I was taught to ring, where I rang my
first peal(s) and where my father was Rector. (I'd be interested in a copy of
your recording Bill.)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=181241221-26032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>DrL</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>Bill Hibbert<BR><B>Sent:</B> 26 March 2007 21:52<BR><B>To:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Petham,
Kent<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P>I was analysing the tuning of All Saints, Petham, Kent this evening, <BR>as
you do. This 1923 six is said to be the first 'Simpson'-tuned peal <BR>from
the Whitechapel foundry. However, although the bells have a <BR>lovely warm
hummy sound, they are best described, as regards true-<BR>harmonic tuning, as
a valiant but failed try.<BR><BR>Both hums and primes vary uniformly from
slightly sharp in the tenors <BR>to somewhat flat in the trebles. Clearly an
experimental ring: M&S <BR>had got the hums down, but overshot in the
trebles (treble hum is 25 <BR>cents flat), and the primes are moderately
old-style (treble prime is <BR>55 cents flat). The nominals are stretched, by
17 cents in the treble <BR>of six. In my recording of all six in changes, the
twanginess of the <BR>trebles can be heard.<BR><BR>The actual tuning figures
in Hz for those who care are:<BR>treble: 392, 770.5, 938, 1256.5, 1590.5,
2369.5, 3236.5<BR>2nd: 349.5, 689, 834, 1119, 1413, 2110, 2891.5<BR>3rd: 315,
618.5, 743.5, 972.5, 1248.5, 1860.5, 2553.5<BR>4th: 290, 588, 695.5, 895,
1171, 1750, 2407<BR>5th: 264.5, 530.5, 629.5, 820.5, 1055.5, 1578,
2173.5<BR>tenor: 235, 471, 558.5, 723.5, 936.5, 1399.5,
1922.5<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>Bill H<BR><BR><BR></P></DIV><!--End group email --></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>