Bell tuning; standard pitches

[Christopher POVEY]

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Assessing the accuracy of older rings of bells against Standard Pitch (A=3D=
440hz) is misleading, as that is unlikely to have been the pitch against wh=
ich the bells were tuned originally, ie the goalposts have moved. When Eves=
ham were cast and tuned in 1951, Taylors were using C=3D518 as the standard=
. This frequency is now C -17.5 cents on the Standard Pitch.

Chris Povey


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