source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 05:55:00 -0700 From: JOHNSON@SKSOID.dseg.ti.com Greetings! I've read with great interest the topics of this list for some time... Recently there was mention made of Chinese bells and I remember an excellent article in the April 1987 issue of Scientific American which describes an instrument made of 65 bronze bells recovered by archaeologists in 1978 that dates back to the fifth century B.C. An unusual (and rather charming) discovery about these old chime bells is that they were constructed such that each will produce two separate pitches depending upon where they are struck (The interval is always a minor or major third.). To quote the article, "The design of the bells requires a theoretical grasp of physics and engineering formerly thought to have evolved only in the late 18th century." Thoughts??? Observations??? regards, dj dana-johnson@ti.com Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 17:09 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA09635; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 08:09:28 -0700 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 08:09:28 -0700 Message-Id: <9510180805.aa17347@cyber.cyber.net> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu