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size=2>A bell produces a series of notes which the human ear is
comfortable, which blend to form the strike note. However with huge
bells like this one the way we perceive the strike note is liable to
be be distorted, because some of the relevant notes are outside our
hearing range and others which we wouldn't normally be aware of are inside
it. Perhaps ideally very big bells ought to have a slightly different
profile? I can't see much chance of this being researched properly as it
would cost too much, but it seems to me an interesting idea.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=796203308-01082012><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Peter
Rivet</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>In <A
href="mailto:bellhistorians%40yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</A>,
Carl S Zimmerman <csz_stl@...> wrote:<BR>Yes, I could hear that on the TV
last night. But what I heard even more prominently was the note E a fourth
above it. I suspect that this isn't really a partial tone of the bell, but
an artifact of the human ear, like the one which plagued G&J during the
creation of the Riverside bourdon.<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>