<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I am sure you are right but Cyril Johnston, and, after him, Michael Howard, clearly believed that a perfectly concentric bell was much easier to tune and control.</div><div><br></div><div>R<br><br>Sent from Richard Offen's iPhone</div><div><br>On 24/11/2010, at 12:29 AM, "Andrew Higson" <<a href="mailto:andrew.higson@sJVHOHQ8H5cNsYrVJeyj0p57Iq3Ig7yFFXX_4NEmXKr406kBSIL-76yBUhwueq98y6rWNZBUst_8OZK3M39i0wOJpqd6meVoeg.yahoo.invalid">andrew.higson@sJVHOHQ8H5cNsYrVJeyj0p57Iq3Ig7yFFXX_4NEmXKr406kBSIL-76yBUhwueq98y6rWNZBUst_8OZK3M39i0wOJpqd6meVoeg.yahoo.invalid</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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