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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nothing significant to contribute on this issue,
but I think two points are worth making:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. There are now very few surviving examples of
sets of bells that have not been retuned (and in the case of old scratch tuning
and edging we don't actually know when this was done).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. Before the conservation extremists say "told you
so - we should never have allowed tuning" - we should remember that within the
bellfounders archives of at least three of the main firms, there are detailed
records of the pitches and tuning of bells prior to retuning or
recasting.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In other words, the bells themselves may have been
recast or altered, BUT if someone really wanted to do a serious study on this,
some potentially useful stuff does exist. I imagine that access to the
relevant foundry records could be negotiated for such a purpose </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>CP</FONT><!--End group email --></DIV></BODY></HTML>