Kennington

[Richard Offen]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "LOVE, Dickon" 
<dickon.love at a...> wrote:
> OK, just for Andrew and Richard, I have uploaded the tuning figures 
for
> Kennington, Kent, both before and after retuning. They were a rum 
old lot
> before Richard put them on the lathe and the improvement is stark 
(I have
> ensured that the scale of the graphs remains the same).
> 
> Two other improvements: the colours (more pleasing I hope Andrew) 
and also
> the absolute frequencies given in terms of Note + or - 
centisemitones.
> 
> http://kent.lovesguide.com/tuning/kennington_old.xls
> http://kent.lovesguide.com/tuning/kennington_new.xls
> 
> You can see the church and hear a sound clip on:
> http://kent.lovesguide.com/kennington.htm (only the post tuning 
bells I am
> afraid).
> 
> DrL

This looks much better and I find it much easier to understand cents 
if they are given in relation to their note, but I'm sorry to say 
they appear wrongly in the Kennington figures - 747Hz (nominal of the 
tenor after tuning) is as near as damn it F#, not Ab.

R