[Bell Historians] 16th and 17th century tuning

[Richard Smith]

Rod,

> What evidence is there from complete rings:

Thanks for this.  Barts was an example that came to my mind 
too, but I notice from Dickon's website that they were 
retuned in 1952.  Perhaps there were earlier tunings too? 
I'd be interested in knowing whether the tone-tone-semitone- 
tone intervals in the tuning (i.e. the major scale) are 
believed to go back as far as 1510.  Just as an example, if 
the bells had originally been tuned B, C#, D#, E#, F# -- a 
Lydian mode -- and a century later the 2nd was flattened by 
a semitone, would we be aware of that?

Richard