Exeter cathedral
Richard Smith
richard at x0MqGPBDJb_eXmNgXxpITV3AU5jBKYJlaGIt-P1Zd_CC085q3AF8U63kteadVX7Y-bvlWAeYYrsx5mqN1JOQuA.yahoo.invalid
Mon Jul 26 18:07:13 BST 2010
Much to my irritation I've just tipped a cup of coffee all
over my desk and rendered illegible the first page of some
notes I'd made on the history of the bells of Exeter
cathedral. I can't now read where I got the information
from, and I'm hoping someone can help me work this out.
It was definitely a book or pamphlet that had been scanned
and made available on-line (probably through archive.org or
Google Books); I think it was from the 19th century. I had
used the book to draw up a table showing each recast and
augmentation of the bells since the 16th or 17th century,
and it was particularly informative about the fact that they
had a flat sixth long before the natural sixth suggesting a
ring in the Mixolydian mode.
I've tried searching the obvious on-line archives for
likely-looking titles, but have drawn a blank. Can anyone
suggest what this book might have been?
Thanks,
RAS
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