<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You illustrate my point exactly.<div><br></div><div>Which Harrison bells are you referring to?</div><div><br></div><div>It seems that so-called "Harrison" bells were actually made and tuned by people than the John Harrison of Longitude fame.</div><div><br></div><div>Please check your dates, and you (I expect) will find that your "Harrison bells" do not exist.</div><div><br></div><div>John Harrison (1629-1695)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>see:</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><a href="http://www.lucytune.com/new_to_lt/pitch_01.html">http://www.lucytune.com/new_to_lt/pitch_01.html</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I would be very grateful if you can prove me wrong, and actually enable me to record real Harrison bells, produced during his lifetime for I have yet to find any to test.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 14 Oct 2009, at 21:58, David Bryant 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; "><div style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">"Which question David?"</p></font></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">This one:</font></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" style="line-height: 1.22em; "></font> </div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "><font color="black" size="3" face="Optima" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Optima; color: black; font-size: 12pt; ">"Why should a peal be tuned in this manner in preference to any other system? What advantage does this give? </span></font><font color="black" size="3" face="Optima" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Optima; color: black; font-size: 12pt; ">I am not aware that<st1 style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Harrison</st1>’s bells are stunningly better than anything else from the same period."</span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "><font color="black" size="3" face="Optima" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Optima; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "></span></font> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Optima; color: black; font-size: 12pt; ">David</span></font></p></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div width="1" style="line-height: 1.22em; color: white; clear: both; "></div></div></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@iR1pkUBlLlpN0UClwoha1EEBIX0gcLJ7jNU0D34Bhbl9nXCoH2PrgN_cq8j5kWnPnWe6VvQYNQ9B5iBM.yahoo.invalid">lucy@iR1pkUBlLlpN0UClwoha1EEBIX0gcLJ7jNU0D34Bhbl9nXCoH2PrgN_cq8j5kWnPnWe6VvQYNQ9B5iBM.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></body></html>