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<P><BR>I am <BR>> aware of one stretched peal from Whitechapel from this period <BR>> (Cornhill 1958) but perhaps there are others I haven't come across.</P>
<P><FONT color="#0000bf"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff;" face="arial">A quick mental calculation, from the nominal figures give in the 'on-line' Dove ,suggest an overal stretch of about 15 cents. This has more than likely come about because Bill Hughes liked to do the final tuning of the octave bells of a ring by ear (he had a very accurate one!) and was an advocate of allowing a small amount of stretch (it usually ended up at about 6-8 cents for the treble of a ring of eight), in order to make the octave sound natural to the ear. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="arial"><FONT color="#0000bf"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff;">Again, with another quick mental calculation, Great Yarmouth appear to have about the same stretch of abpout 15 cents. </FONT></FONT><FONT color="#0000bf">I seem to remember that Bow also have a small amount of stretch and probably Cripplegate too.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="arial" color="#0000bf">We also mustn't forget that these rings are tuned 'just diatonic' and not to equal temperament, so the cent values between adjacent bells will not appear as would be the case if they were equal temperament peals.</FONT></P>
<P><BR>> > Richard Offen and St George's Perth:<BR>> Richard's comment that the trebles are thin is an important clue. If <BR>> this is so, the strike notes will not be flattened to the same <BR>> degree as for thick trebles. It sounds as if stretch has been <BR>> applied in a formulaic way to these bells when it was not needed. <BR>> Tuning figures (especially the octave nominals) would settle the <BR>> matter. Plus, Richard used to be a bell tuner ...<BR>> <BR><FONT face="arial" color="#0000bf">I haven't pitched the upper partials of St George's, but I could do it at some point when I have time - certainly not in the next couple of weeks.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000bf">I've always maintained that my days as a tuner ruined my enjoyment of many rings of bells that others class as 'good', like, no doubt, Andrew Higson and Nigel Taylor, I can hear things going on that others don't notice. There again, as, for some strange reason, I rather like the old Cornhill bells (it's probably more nostalgia than anything!), some would doubt that I can hear anything adequately!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="arial" color="#0000bf">Richard</FONT></P>