[Bell Historians] Bizarre Warner octave scale

[Richard Bimson]

I think that if the tenor note were F# and not F flat then the notes as given would make them in the Locrian mode. That is probably entirely irrelevant as mis-prints/understanding is far more likely.
Richard
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Subject: [Bell Historians] Bizarre Warner octave scale


I have been doing some research into the old bells of St Peter’s, Tunbridge Wells. They were a Warner 5 in an 8 bell frame, augmented (with a treble) to 6, and then (with 2 trebles) to an 8, all in the space of decade. The Kent & Sussex Courier on 24 Jan 1879 says that when the octave is complete, the notes of the bells will be “1st F sharp; 2nd, E; 3rd D (the recent addition); 4th C; 5th, B; 6th A; 7th, G; 8th (tenor), F flat." (from the tenor, F flat, G, A, B, C, D, E, F sharp)   Clearly this is not a diatonic 8, and my instinct was (is) to put this down to a series of typos. The nearest key to these is F major (F, G, A, B flat, C, D, E, F). However, before I dismiss this out of hand, might there be occasions where Warners got the key so wrong that someone with perfect pitch might choose to describe the notes in this way?



The ring can’t have been very good. Gilletts recast them (and put them in a new frame) 34 years later.



DrL

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