[Bell Historians] Pitches of bells

David Bryant davidbryant at ...
Mon Jun 13 15:51:00 BST 2005


>David - you have contradicted yourself. I agree that B# would never
>be identified as the pitch of the tonic, but there are certain key
>signatures which use B# rather than C higher in the scale, so it
>would be entirely appropriate to use that.

Yes - I expressed it badly.What I should have said is "it is rare to find 
the tonic of a ring of bells described as being B#, E# or Gb.

That Better?!

David



 


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