Word: tuners
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However, Harvard did not realize this at the time, and there was an uproar when the Russian tuner was discovered filing the bells down. No longer permitted to do this, Sergiev decided that one of the bells, the "bell of hope, felicity and joy" (which was a member of the original set) was too close in pitch to another bell in the set, the "bell of famine pestilence and despair...
From the start, the Harvard career of these bells has been marked by tragedy. President A. Lawrence Lowell hired a Soviet to install and then tune the bells, unaware that they could not be tuned. The poor bell-tuner, thrust into Cambridge without knowing a bit of English, started to file notches into the bell rims, much to Lowell's chagrin. (He promptly had the man fired for defacing them...
...Lowell summoned the help of other, more trustworthy bell experts when it was discovered that one of the bells was not a member of the original set. Because one bell would forever be inharmonious, all efforts for tuning would prove futile. (The Soviet tuner may not have been so bad after...