Gillett & Johnston tuning figures

[Bill Hibbert]

I am doing some more work with Alan Buswell on interpreting the 
figures in the G&J tuning books. I have been looking in detail at 
the Berlin Freedom bell, comparing the tuning book figures against 
recordings. Alan gave some of the tuning figures for this bell in 
message #12414 and Richard Offen recounted discussions with Wally 
Spraget to the effect that an (unsuccessful) attempt was made to 
tune the upper partials in this bell. The tuning figures confirm 
this.

Several of the partial frequencies have unexplained annotations, 
e.g. LW&W, LWW, CR, W.WALL and WW&W. I am guessing that these 
annotations explain where the bell was struck, or the tuning fork 
was placed, to stimulate the frequency in question - it's probable 
that all those annotated have a node at the soundbow. It occurred to 
me that CR could mean crown and LW&W / LWW could mean lower waist 
and waist. I have so far been unable to interpet the others.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on this?

Thanks,

Bill H