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🔔 Swinging Church Bell: Physical Pendulum, Clapper Timing and Partial Tones

A bell on a wheel swings as a large-amplitude physical pendulum (period from an elliptic integral) while its clapper, a coupled second pendulum, strikes only when the swing is big enough; each strike is synthesised from hum, prime, tierce, quint and nominal partials with exponential decay, beating and a missing-fundamental strike note.

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A bell on a wheel swings as a large-amplitude physical pendulum (period from an elliptic integral) while its clapper, a coupled second pendulum, strikes only when the swing is big enough; each strike is synthesised from hum, prime, tierce, quint and nominal partials with exponential decay, beating and a missing-fundamental strike note.

Physical PendulumChurch BellPartial TonesMissing FundamentalCoupled Pendulum

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