tierce

Converse of object

• have: The next interesting point is that these bells typically have very quiet tierces - look at the intensity profiles compared with those at Tewkesbury.
• tune: Even in this peal, Taylors were not tuning the tierce to the theoretical value.

Adjective modifier

• prime: In bell founding these partials have acquired their own names of hum tone, prime, tierce, quint, and nominal.
• minor: It does affect the timbre - bells with a major tierce have a clearly different quality than those with minor tierces.
• major: One suspects these major tierces in older bells occur through accident rather than design.
• nominal: From the chart, one can see that the nominal, tierce and prime were barely touched, the hum lowered a little.

Modifies a noun

• rank: His swell mixtures often had a tierce rank in the tenor octave but this was a hangover of the 18th Century English organ.
• mixture: It is carried up forty-three notes without a break, which is an excellent feature in a tierce mixture of only three ranks.

Preposition: in

• bell: One suspects these major tierces in older bells occur through accident rather than design.