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François Hémony

Dutch bell founder

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In carillon
…17th century with the founders François and Pierre Hémony of the Netherlands. They were the first to tune the bells with precision, especially with regard to a bell’s inner tuning (i.e., of the partial tones that make up a bell’s complex sound), and thus to put fully into practice the…
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