<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We have actually been researching a bell type instrument. These conical bells prototypes were turned not cast at present, and work continues currently in software emulations using Java and animation.<div><br><div>more info. at:</div><div><a href="http://www.tonysalinas.com">http://www.tonysalinas.com</a></div><div><br><div><div>On 14 Oct 2009, at 10:04, Frank King wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; 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: 0px; "><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; ">David Bryant asserts:<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> It doesn't take too much analysis to<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> work out that the main customer of bell<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> founders / hangers is the Church of<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> England.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Is this the case? Need this be the case?<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Those who read this list are primarily<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">interested in church bells but bells<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">abound in numerous other places: ships,<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">schools and clock-towers for a start.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">There is also a market for handbells for<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">tune-ringing.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">In the season leading up to Christmas, I<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">note bells (albeit brass) advertised in<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">several mail-order catalogues.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Viewed dispassionately, a foundry with<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">the skills to cast church bells should be<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">able to cast a huge range of non-ferrous<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">items.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Somewhere out there, there must be a<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">high-volume market which can be tapped.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">It may be ornamental bath taps or bronze<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">doors or components for the auto-motive<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">industry.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">It might even be sets of Lucy-Tuned<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">handbells. Who knows?<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Someone needs to go out and do some<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">market research and then some hard<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">selling!<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Frank H. King<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">The University Bellringer<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Cambridge, U.K.<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></span></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <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><a href="mailto:lucy@lucytune.com">lucy@H2cQP1ET4zxh8QXTGY1sGkpkyWL8FvAsDDANgttHzH8DRC_6kddHqW3zhrHdmQXNLkdTPxP9gJQ97g.yahoo.invalid</a></div><div><br></div><div>- Promoting global harmony through LucyTuning -</div><div><br></div><div>for information on LucyTuning go to:</div><div><a href="http://www.lucytune.com">http://www.lucytune.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>For LucyTuned Lullabies go to:</div><div><a href="http://www.lullabies.co.uk">http://www.lullabies.co.uk</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></div></body></html>