<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thank you Bill, I realise that the tuning of a single bell is for many a secondary consideration, <div><br></div><div>yet I suspect that it is so closely interacting with the timbre that to consider a number of matched bells requires serious consideration of the tuning.<div><br></div><div>This is where Harrison's recently discovered manuscript comes in.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.lucytune.com/academic/manuscript_search.html">http://www.lucytune.com/academic/manuscript_search.html</a><br><div><br></div><div>These things (tuning, design and manufacturing methods) need to be explored at some time, yet much later; as the immediate task is to sort out the business and commercial aspects.</div><div><br></div><div>I wish I could be at your lecture in Cambridge, instead I have just arrived in Northampton from London, en route to Loughborough.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 21 Sep 2009, at 10:17, oakcroft13 wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; width: 655px; position: relative; "><div id="ygrp-msg" style="line-height: 1.22em; width: 470px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 25px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; z-index: 1; "><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia; "><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Charles Lucy,<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> I see no conflict whatsoever between what Simpson said and what Harrison claims.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">I definitely need to send you that email! Unfortunately I am in Cambridge all day, presenting at an acoustics conference. I'll try to write to you tomorrow. There is so much more to the quality of bells, both individually and rung together, that the exact tuning of their 'notes' is some way down the list of priorities.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Cheers,<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Bill H<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></p></div><div width="1" style="line-height: 1.22em; color: white; clear: both; "></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Charles Lucy</div><div>lucy@ZHTMDcfid4y2iS-1_oezDCzrhfufUx6_0NeULDNZN87rxSq48OS4RTtOWYFwebikx96kbjackXT9bpg.yahoo.invalid</div><div><br></div><div>- Promoting global harmony through LucyTuning -</div><div><br></div><div>for information on LucyTuning go to:</div><div>http://www.lucytune.com</div><div><br></div><div>For LucyTuned Lullabies go to:</div><div>http://www.lullabies.co.uk</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></div></div></body></html>