[Bell Historians] Tubular chimes

[Robert Lewis]

At 18:46 06/10/2005, you wrote:
>At 17:53 +0100 2005/10/05, Carl Zimmerman wrote:
> >See http://www.bellperc.com/fsbell.htm
>
>The tubular bells which this firm is selling are for orchestral use,
>and are similar to what are used in longcase clocks. They are
>thin-walled and only about 4 or 5 cm in diameter, thus they are
>totally unsuited for use in a tower.
>
>The Harrington tower tubes which I have seen are 8 to 10 cm in
>diameter and about 1 cm thick.
>
>CSZ

Agreed. But presumably the technology and techniques for producing and 
tuning them is not radically different. It would be interesting to see what 
they would say if asked to make something a bit larger. Perhaps the costs 
of getting tooled-up for a one-off job would be prohibitive?


RAL