Bell pitches

[Richard Offen]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Dickon Love" 
<dickon.love at a...> wrote:
> Nick Bowden:
> > 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.
> 
> Quite right. This is what I meant.
> 
> 
> RCO:
> > Presumably Thomas Young's tuning system had lots of 
> > stretched octaves!
> 
> Nigel Taylor:
> > No! it follows the usual well-temperament rules...
> 
> I think you missed Richard's drole remark - about Thomas Young 
being 
> the creator of Young's Modulus (that parameter of elasticity). Gave 
> me a chuckle rather than the usual groan encouraged by Richard's 
wit!
> 
> DrL

You're too kind Dickon ...I think!

R