<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Bottom A on a piano is 27.5 and us piano tuners are supposed to</DIV>
<DIV>make sense of that . . . We hope !</DIV>
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<DIV>David Willis<BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 8/21/08, Bill Hibbert <I><bill@ecwQ7-t0i5BXuTe1KvuaROuDWRkxpnXMeMOwRj4_LKKPja9w69MU6N808uf4C4JZjC-FU_f6WEJa06uMTzI.yahoo.invalid></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Bill Hibbert <bill@ecwQ7-t0i5BXuTe1KvuaROuDWRkxpnXMeMOwRj4_LKKPja9w69MU6N808uf4C4JZjC-FU_f6WEJa06uMTzI.yahoo.invalid><BR>Subject: [Bell Historians] Carillon<BR>To: bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR>Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008, 10:00 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV>There will be no point in tuning the proposed bourdon of 75t, <BR>certainly not in any any conventional sense, because any partial we <BR>normally talk about will be way below the audible range. I would <BR>guess such a bell would have a nominal of about 180Hz. All one will <BR>hear is a low-pitched tuneless crash.<BR><BR>However, this is a fantastic cost saving measure, because the bottom <BR>half dozen or more keys on the keyboard or clavier can all play on <BR>the same bell, and no-one will know any different. (This is an old <BR>organ-builders trick for 32 foot stops.) To avoid each of the keys <BR>producing an identical tuneless crash, each hammer could hit the bell <BR>at a different point moving up from the lip towards the waist.<BR><BR>To have the bottom nine semitones (i.e. everything with a nominal of <BR>less than 300Hz) all play at different points on the same bell will I <BR>estimate save about 315 tonnes of metal. With enough bells,
arranged <BR>artistically, no-one will think to count how many there are.<BR><BR>Bill H<BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table><br>