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<DIV><SPAN class=973050708-10072007>Harrison bells are about half the weight of
conventional bells of the same note, but the sound...</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=973050708-10072007>We now have the technology to create bells
of almost any combination of weight and note, and still achieve Simpson tuning,
or an alternative pleasing harmonic structure.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=973050708-10072007>There are some basics of physics which will
limit the power to something proportional to the weight, but halving power, just
3dB reduction far from being a dramatic reduction, is actually hardly
noticeable.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=973050708-10072007>We ringers like deep toned bells and will
work really hard on a big peal for the pleasure of hearing them, so why
haven't lighter bells and appropriate clappering been developed to produce
a deep full tone with slightly less volume?</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=973050708-10072007>the Australian site <A
href="http://www.ausbell.com/Federation%20Bells/FEDBELLS.html">http://www.ausbell.com/</A></SPAN><SPAN
class=973050708-10072007> shows that computer generation of profiles for a
particular result is now understood, although the use of the technology here is
extreme.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=973050708-10072007>Clappering has not been addressed. A light
deep toned bell is likely to need to be struck with a low velocity and fairly
high mass clapper to produce dominance from its lower partials, and would need
reliving from a fairly high mass clapper resting on and over damping it, but
some damping is needed.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=973050708-10072007>Possibly a T shaped clapper swinging through
about half the normal ark, a composite structure with the impacting
material at each end of the top of the T.</SPAN></DIV>
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