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<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="" class=""><span style="" class="">As the writer of the quoted material, I can say with certainty that it is NOT authoritative - merely my best guess, based partly on the fact that the patina on the old Durfee, Harrington and Deagan tower tubes that I have seen is about the same color as that on old conventional tower bells. But I have never seen an </span><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">analysis, </span> either qualitative or a quantitative, of the metal, and so I do not know for sure.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br><span style="" class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class="">However, I was recently told by an old friend in the bell business that Deagan tower tubes were centrifugally cast from a mixture of 60% copper and 40% zinc. This means that they are brass and not bronze, and certainly not the variety of bronze that we call "bell metal." Whether that holds true for tubes made by Harrington or Durfee I do not yet know.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br><span style="" class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class="">Let's hope that this discussion prompts someone who has access to a discarded Harrington tube to submit it to an analytical metallurgist for study!<br style=""></span></div><div style="" class=""> </div><div style="" class="">Carl Scott Zimmerman<br style="" class="">Saint Louis, Missouri, USA -<br style="" class="">- 19th c. home of at least 36 bell founders or resellers<br style="" class="">Tel. +1(314)821-8437<br style="" class="">Webmaster for www.TowerBells.org<br style="" class=""> * Avocation: tower bells<br style="" class=""> * Recreation: handbells<br style="" class=""> * Mission: church bells</div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><blockquote class="" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande,
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