Word: turk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing in response to Gayle Turk's critical editorial concerning "Those @!&# Bells" (February 22), both to correct her numerous errors and misrepresentations, and in order to present an opposing viewpoint...
...follow in Turk's footsteps, first," a bit of bell history." The stories surrounding the Lowell bells are a mish-mash of fact and fiction, but every Sunday, visitors to the bell tower will hear a particular version which has been preserved in the archives of the Lowell House Bell-Ringers' Society...
...tower was redesigned to hold the bells, and President Lowell hired a Russian, Sergiev, to care for them. Sergiev's duties includes tuning and playing the bells, and he took to the task with fervor. While Turk claims that the bells "could not be tuned," they in fact could, and this is why Sergiev field notches into the bells: this is the only method of tuning bronze bells...
Furthermore, Turk's simplistic dismissal of the bells as "discordant," "incomplete and out-of-tune," "distorted" and "intrinsically flawed" is simply incorrect. The bells have been tuned and are in harmony with the Eastern scale--which places them at odds with our Western eight-tone scale. This is likely the source of Turk's misconceptions about the sounds of the bells peal forth...
...only read the lead story, but from what I read, it appeared to be a one-sided trumpeting of a radical property rights view of Cambridge and the world," said Michael Turk, co-chair of the Cambridge Tenants Union...