Historical methods of bell tuning

[Richard Offen]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Bill Hibbert" <bill at ...> wrote:
>
> Lawrence:
> > Sorry Bill, at least I tried!
>
> Absolutely, and it was mean of me to tease you. One of the great
things
> about this list is that people make a genuine effort to help and to
> contribute and long may it continue

Hear, hear!


> Richard:
>
> > I suspect that many of the better founders were quite aware of
partial
> tones ... I'll go through my science of music books (I have
> quite a collection!) and see what early references I can dig up.
>
> The information can turn up on the most unlikely places. In my own
> researches I (re)discovered that Jacob van Eyck, the musical 'brains'
> behind the Hemonys, met a Dutch philosopher / scientist called Isaac
> Beeckman, a relative of Christian Huygens, in 1633 and described and
> demonstrated the partial tones of bells. Isaac wrote it all down in
his
> diary which was published, unfortunately for us in Dutch, between 1939
> and 1953. I think this was the source used by André Lehr.
>
> I wonder if such a treasure trove is hiding in a UK library or record
> office somewhere?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill H


We live in hope!

R

           
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