<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>--- On Mon, 26/7/10, Richard Smith <richard@Bq6JPR1d0osIekaS0t1YmzsIq_EbwEE6QOOU1_3CJj10-rohhaxOH-sfExov3J5NchhRi1aXo648G2MyQQ.yahoo.invalid> wrote:<br> <br><br>Much to my irritation I've just tipped a cup of coffee all <br>over my desk and rendered illegible the first page of some <br>notes I'd made on the history of the bells of Exeter <br>cathedral. I can't now read where I got the information <br>from, and I'm hoping someone can help me work this out.<br><br>It was definitely a book or pamphlet that had been scanned <br>and made available on-line (probably through archive.org or <br>Google Books); I think it was from the 19th century. I had <br>used the book to draw up a table showing each recast and <br>augmentation of the bells since the 16th or 17th century, <br>and it was particularly informative about the fact that they <br>had a flat sixth long before the natural sixth suggesting a <br>ring in the Mixolydian
mode.<br><br>I've tried searching the obvious on-line archives for <br>likely-looking titles, but have drawn a blank. Can anyone <br>suggest what this book might have been?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>RAS<br><br><br>I am sure that I have seen these details somewhere but can't recall where .<br>It may have been up the tower. It was the business about the flat 6 which <br>particularly caught my eye.<br><br>David<br></td></tr></table><br>