source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 15:25:17 -0800 Subject: tuning the tubes From: Lydia Ayers Matt Nathan wrote: >Going back to the hanging chimes, each tubular bell >is a single system which has both large surface >area and definitive peak resonances (unlike a violin body). > >Now, what do we tune these to? :) We tune them to anything we want. The tubes are both hanging and horizontal, with a special holder designed for groups of six horitonzontal tubes. I have about three octaves of these, tuned in just intonation, with 75 tubes in the middle octave, and a few less in the outer octaves. If anybody wants to try a few tubes, contact Woodstock Percussion in West Hurley <, New York. I got my custom-made tubes through Stacy Bowers, who is sometimes difficult to reach since the company has become so large (I got mine in their early years when they were a samllmall operatoion with just a few people). Best, Lydia Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 02:01 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA32496; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 02:01:39 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA32366 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id QAA21310; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 16:59:11 -0800 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 16:59:11 -0800 Message-Id: <33162DFA.1250@cavehill.dnet.co.uk> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu