Bell Notes

[jimhedgcock <jameshedgcock@h...>]

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I remember being told many years ago that Chesterfield's ten 
was 'tuned off the note'. I don't know if this is accurate. 
Presumably this is what is being referred to here.
Jim- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Bill Hibbert <bill at h...>" 
<bill at h...> wrote:
> Mike Chester:
> 
> > A is now 440Hz, where as before it was
> > slightly different, (help me here, Bill!).
> 
> Spot on, no help needed! Pitch standards have moved around 
> considerably and A=440 was chosen as recently as 1939. There is 
much 
> history I could provide here but it is not very important 
> because . . . 
> 
> > the given note of a bell has always been
> > approximate
> 
> Elphick's 'Craft of the Bellfounder' says (page 98): 'Even as late 
as 
> the end of the 19th century some founders used to pick out the bell 
> with the flattest note in the ring, file up a set of tuning forks 
to 
> suit its nominal and tune the others to it'. Whitechapel have told 
me 
> in the past that this was certainly their practice.
> 
> Bill H