[Bell Historians] Elphick on Whitechapel

[David Bryant]

Bill wrote:

> 'Whitechapel remained aloof, working out in the early 1900s their own 
> system of five-tone tuning with a muted third, which was obtained by 
> so casting a bell that the third partial had hardly to be touched in 
> the tuning machine . . . the third is deliberately muted to enable 
> the strike note to be clearer.'

Talking of Whitechapel tuning, what do people think of Alan Hughes'
letter in the RW a couple of weeks ago regarding the tuning of old-style
bells. One of the rings he mentions in it has recently come under fire
on the Yorkshire Ringers' list, with one contributor being rather less
than complimentary about them.

What's the view of list members on the practice of matching old bells in
a ring?

David