[Bell Historians] Historical methods of bell tuning

[La Greenall]

http://www.inspirewebdesign.com/ringsof12/tower_articles/a_semitones.htm

http://www.taylorbells.co.uk/pages/towerbells/index.html

http://www.hibberts.co.uk/history.htm

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.ketteringham/campanology/subjects.htm

Regards, Lawrence.

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> [mailto:bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bill Hibbert
> Sent: 01 August 2006 16:40
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> Richard Offen's fascinating note of a couple of weeks ago describing 
> Whitechapel's tuning methods of 100 years ago caused me to 
> investigate 
> whether there were other descriptions of historical tuning methods. I 
> am familiar with:
> * the description in Elphick's 'Craft of the Bellfounder', part of 
> which is copied verbatim from:
> * Fred Sharpe's description of Rudhall's tuning machine in 'Church 
> Bells of Herefordshire'
> * André Lehr's description of the Hemonys' methods.
> 
> Apart from these, I have drawn a blank. Does anyone know of other 
> written sources I can investigate for more information?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill H
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