[Jewelry making - Article 00025] - Re: [Orchid] Silver bell rattles

[M'lou Brubaker]

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    Nancy, I am no bell expert, but I did have a team of draft horses
    with some big jingle bells on their harness, and they made a great
    sound. The bells were about 18 gauge brass, about 1.25 inches in
    diameter, and made by soldering two half-spheres together. They were
    attached to the harness at their South Pole by a rivit, and they had
    four holes drilled around their Equator. These holes each had a saw
    cut start from them and run all the way to the North Pole. This gave
    the bells four equal shapes that could ring freely, not being bound
    in by a network of metal. I always thought that such a free-standing
    arrangement was what gave them their distinctive ring. It seems to me
    that when you don't allow for such vibration, you dull the sound of
    the bell. Maybe you need to have some forms in your sphere that are
    more free to vibrate, so that you can get more of a ringing sound
    instead of just a clack. HTH! 

-- M'lou Brubaker, Jeweler
  Goodland, MN
  www.craftswomen.com



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