[Bell Historians] Re: CD of Worcester Cathedral Bells

[Richard Offen]

Did they?    On what grounds do you make that statement?

"...the tuner can but give the bell the tone or keynote required and must
leave the harmonics produced by the peculiar form of the bell to themselves,
having no power to control such." - John William Taylor, 1878.

R



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On Behalf Of David Bryant
Sent: Wednesday, 17 December 2008 5:20 PM
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Subject: RE: [Bell Historians] Re: CD of Worcester Cathedral Bells

"but we must remember that much of what was being cast during his era
was pretty dreadful and judge his bells against ones from the same
period and not against the glorious sounds we have got used to from the
true harmonic rings of later times."

But Taylor's appear to have understood true-harmonic tuning in the 1850s
- Kingweston in Somerset is a good example.

David

 
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