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DURING the Second World War, when the Germans occupiepl Holland, they ordered that church bells shoud be collected to provide a source of bronze for war prospects. This plan met with great resistance from the Dutch, so that after the liberation, several hundreds of bells of different origin and ages, which had escaped being melted down, were gathered at a number of places. At the end of the War, the Dutch Department for Research in Arts and Measurements took the opportunity to collect complete information on the æsthetic and acoustical properties of these bells, many of which were two or three hundred years old. Part of this work was carried out by E. W. van Heuven, who is to read a paper on this investigation at a meeting of the Acoustics Group of the Physical Society, to be held at the Royal Society of Arts, John Adam Street, London, W.I, on March 18 at 3 p.m.
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Acoustics Measurements on Church Bells. Nature 163, 357 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163357b0
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