Bell pitches

Nick Bowden nickwbowden at ...
Tue Jun 14 12:39:47 BST 2005


"Dickon Love" <dickon.love at a...> wrote:
> What I am seeking to achieve is some consistency in the way I refer 
to 
> keys of bells. Saying "these bells are traditionally in Db rather 
than 
> C#" simply doesn't do it for me. Saying "Since the tenor is 
marginally 
> flat of C sharp I will refer to it as D flat" is much more 
comfortable.
> 

Surely it would make more sense to refer to a tenor slightly flat of c# 
as C#. If it was slightly sharp of C# then refer to it as Db.
Nick



 


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