[Bell Historians] Wisbech

[Susan & Christopher Dalton]

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>Subject: [Bell Historians] Wisbech
>Date: Thu, Jun 15, 2006, 8:37 pm
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> I may be incorrect, but I thought that the tenor was also machined in
> the shoulder, although the 2nd partial was left a shade sharp. Andrew
> Higson presumably did some more shoulder cutting? I shall check the
> tuning book when I have a spare moment.
> Nigel Taylor

That should reveal all, and I am very ready to be corrected by the experts.

What Nigel calls the '2nd partial' (particularly affected by cutting in the
shoulder) I take to be what the rest of us usually call the 'fundamental' or
'prime' and Whitechapel at that time called the 'extra'.

C D