Scale of thickness of bells
An investigation into the scale of thickness of 7,653 bells and how it affects prime and octave nominal tuning […]
An investigation into the scale of thickness of 7,653 bells and how it affects prime and octave nominal tuning […]
Description of a simple experimental procedure for identifying the nodal patterns of bell partials. […]
Investigation of the tuning of 31 historic peals of eight and ten showing their strike pitches were tuned more accurately than expected, followed by a review of the few written accounts of historic methods of bell tuning. […]
Determining the strike pitch of tubular bells. […]
Comparison of the partials of five long-waisted bells shows a pattern to the lower partials that helps with analysis. […]
A classic Taylor peal from 1887. […]
This page gives statistics by founder and date of my collection of bell recordings. […]
Detailed records taken when the tenor of Westminster Abbey was tuned in 1971 show the impossibility of independent tuning of upper partials. […]
How to do a tonal analysis of a bell from a recording of it. […]
Visited: Bill Hibbert 31 August 2002 This is a historically very important ring from the Taylor bellfoundry. The tower website used to say: “The bells were cast by John Taylor, Loughborough in 1893, and were only the second ring (after Norton, Sheffield) to be tuned by the ‘Simpson Principle’.” In fact the bells were cast in […]