Using tuning forks.

[Mike Chester <mike@m...>]

> The question has yet to be answered as to why it is not possible 
these days
> to cast a tenor requiring no tuning (a maiden bell) or very little 
tuning.

I seem to recall reading a number of times that founders took a 
number of tries to get a maiden bell to fit in with the rest of the 
ring. This would be prohibitably expensive thing to do today.

Who was the bellfounder that killed himself after failing to cast a 
good maiden bell?

Mike