[78-L] Philadelphia 1917 and the Liberty Bell [FWD]

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Gadzooks! No it wouldn't.
Damn email stripped out the 72 point font from the "BONG".
Well, you get the idea, anyhow.
Feh.
Mal

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Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> Sure we will. It'll sound something like this...
>
> BONG
> Mal
>
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>
> Mike Harkin wrote:
>   
>> Howard,
>>
>> Many thanks!  Learn something every day on 78-L!  So even if the rec could
>> be found, we'll never know what it REALLY sounded like....
>>
>> Mike in Plovdiv
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Sat, 10/11/08, Howard Friedman <hsf318 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> From: Howard Friedman <hsf318 at comcast.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Philadelphia 1917 and the Liberty Bell  [FWD]
>>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Date: Saturday, October 11, 2008, 6:34 AM
>>> FYI
>>>
>>> http://www.ushistory.org/libertybell/
>>>
>>> There is widespread disagreement about when the first crack
>>> appeared on the Bell. Hair-line cracks on bells were bored
>>> out to prevent expansion. However, it is agreed that the
>>> final expansion of the crack which rendered the Bell
>>> unringable was on Washington's Birthday in 1846.
>>>
>>> The Philadelphia Public Ledger takes up the story in its
>>> February 26, 1846 publication:
>>>
>>>   "The old Independence Bell rang its last clear note
>>> on Monday last in honor of the birthday of Washington and
>>> now hangs in the great city steeple irreparably cracked and
>>> dumb. It had been cracked before but was set in order of
>>> that day by having the edges of the fracture filed so as not
>>> to vibrate against each other ... It gave out clear notes
>>> and loud, and appeared to be in excellent condition until
>>> noon, when it received a sort of compound fracture in a
>>> zig-zag direction through one of its sides which put it
>>> completely out of tune and left it a mere wreck of what it
>>> was."
>>>     
>>>