Eijsbouts Olympic Bell.

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On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 @ 23:47 Carl Scott Zimmerman wrote:-


>The annual Christmas & New Year greeting card from Royal Eijsbouts 
>highlights 12 quite varied projects completed during 2012.  One item 
>is this:

>"London, United Kingdom - Acting as sub-contractor to the Whitechapel 
>Bell Foundry Ltd., a very large bell was cast for the opening 
>ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.  The bell, having a net 
>weight of twenty-three tons, was accurately tuned (eleven partials, 
>strike note B) making it the tallest harmonically tuned bell in the 
>world."

Could someone please confirm that all eleven partials could clearly be heard and were in 

tune with the tuning-forks.  If tuning-forks were not used anywhere in the tuning process then the bell could not have been harmonically tuned.
           
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