At 02:04 PM 11/23/97 -0500, Newton wrote: >Bells have been made from cast iron. My Dove's guide to the Church Bells of Britain (and the world) lists some "cast steel bells", but none made of cast iron. Steel bells sound horrible (to my bronze bell/Simpson Tuning-trained ear) as well as being highly susceptable to rusting. Cast iron might be worse. Given the conditions in most steeples they certainly wouldn't be permanent like bronze bells. Even the clappers on most large bells are usually made of wrought iron rather than being cast. I might add we take ours to a blacksmith when they break, which doesn't happen very often. >Some piano factories even bragged about the bell medal plates. Whether it's Big Ben, the Liberty Bell or one of Paul Revere's excellent bells, "bell metal" is nearly always 77% copper and 23% tin, which makes bronze (like a Canadian penny). Train, school and ships bells are traditionally made from brass, which is usually 67 percent copper and 33 percent zinc. If you stretch the point though, a "bell" could be made from any solid material, so any metal could be a "bell-metal". >Try gluing some jeffy leads underside the strut to load it below current >frequency. Yet another use for CA glue? B-}) John Musselwhite, RPT Calgary, Alberta Canada musselj@cadvision.com http://www.cadvision.com/musselj/
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