<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>G&J, in their Tuning Books simply say "not tumed". Can't be more explicit than that!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>AAJB</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Dickon Love <dickon@...><br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 8 May 2013, 17:30<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Bell Historians] Maiden Bells<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>> (please note Dickon, Im being a really good boy and bottom posting!)<br><br>Gold star for Mr Offen. Black marks for Messrs Dawson and Cawley... :)<br><br>DrL<br><br>PS I too agree with this conclusion about "Maiden Bells". When the term was coined, and was entered into casting books, it was generally understood to mean "no further tuning required". I expect all these bells will have had bits of metal scraped off them as the castings were tidied up.<br><br><br>------------------------------------<br><br>Yahoo! Groups Links<br><br><*> To visit your group on the web, go to:<br> <a
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