Gillett and Johnston

Cyril Johnston’s tuning forks

Posted on 1st March 2023 (25th March 2023) by Bill Hibbert

A detailed description of Cyril Johnston’s tuning forks, including investigation of errors in their frequencies. […]

Anomalies in the tuning of Gillett & Johnston bells

Posted on 1st December 2022 (6th April 2023) by Bill Hibbert

Analysis of recordings of three Gillett & Johnson carillons from the 1920s and 1930s, and comparison against the original tuning book figures from the Gillett & Johnston archive, suggests that there is a surprising variation of up to a fifth of a semitone in the frequencies of the tuning forks used to measure and tune the partial frequencies. […]

Posted on 21st November 2022 (17th March 2023) by Bill Hibbert

Gillett and Johnston, formerly Gillett and Bland, were bellfounders in Croydon, Surrey from the late 19th century to the early 1950s. For the first half of the 20th century they were one of the premier founders of carillons and change-ringing bells. Cyril Johnston, son of the original partner Arthur Johnston, joined the company in 1902 […]