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Historic founders would adjust the curves of their patterns as they cast and tested their products. Many would claim to have perfectly tuned bells emerge from the molds. | Historic founders would adjust the curves of their patterns as they cast and tested their products. Many would claim to have perfectly tuned bells emerge from the molds. | ||
Bell founders in the 15th century made great progress in creating musical bells and carillon instruments. They guarded their techniques to the point that for four centuries creating good sounding bells was a lost art. During World War II, the Nazis went through Europe collecting bells to be melted down into cannon (another common use for bell bronze). After the war, research was done in the camp where these bells were stored to determine which ones sounded best and why. | |||
=== Scaling === | |||
Research by Arthur Bigelow in the 1960s resulted in a scaling up of the profiles of smaller bells to improve their ability to compete with larger bells in the same instrument. It also allowed them to ring longer than bells with a light profile. | |||
== Tuning == | == Tuning == | ||