On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 @ 23:47 Carl Scott Zimmerman wrote:-
>The annual Christmas & New Year greeting card from Royal Eijsbouts
>highlights 12 quite varied projects completed during 2012. One item
>is this:
>"London, United Kingdom - Acting as sub-contractor to the Whitechapel <br>
>Bell Foundry Ltd., a very large bell was cast for the opening
>ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The bell, having a net
>weight of twenty-three tons, was accurately tuned (eleven partials,
>strike note B) making it the tallest harmonically tuned bell in the
>world."Could someone please confirm that all eleven partials could clearly be heard and were in tune with the tuning-forks. If tuning-forks were not used anywhere in the tuning process then the bell could not have been harmonically tuned.</div>