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[Zobot257]

Oh man, I completely missed that there was more than one constellation on "Constellation" page! Gah, dummy, I thought the part I posted about was more important than it was supposed to be.

Sorry!

I called the number and heard the bells. My thoughts: Maybe some sort of code hidden in the bells, or possibly a snippet of a musical number? I could only make out two types of bells, possibly something involving morse code?

I'm having a friend who knows a lot about music listen to it when he's available later today to see if he can make anything of it, if it's a piece of music or something. I'll listen again and see if I can translate it into Morse Code.

EDIT:

[hae_jin]

[MrToasty]

Finally got a decent recording.

[hae_jin]

[Zobot257]

Ok, I had my musical friend look at this, and over the medium of text messages he sent me his thoughts. I'm typing them up now, hope they somehow prove helpful!

"Nothing obvious comes to mind. I can tell you exactly which bells are ringing but that's likely not very useful."

"It sounds like the maker made a mistake early on? It's a minor tune -- sounds a bit like a few scraps of spirituals or European folk songs."

"Also note that the bell pitched C was played constantly."

"Listen to the 3rd note. It doesn't sound right. Like the ringer missed. If I were looking for clues out of this that might seem intentional to me."

"Only four bells were played -- c, e flat, f, g. I noticed that the rhythm repeats, kinda -- 3 notes, a break, 2 notes, a break, repeat."

"It might be a code of some sort, but you can't really spell much with music notes. Only a few letters to work with. So translating the letters of the notes to a word or something is likely a dead end."

"The melody as I heard it was like this: g c eb / eb g g / eb f g / gc where the / indicates a break. That's all I got! Hope it helps! I'll expect you to tell me what this is all about later, why do you think this is a code or something? What's it for?"

So my initial assumption based off of his thoughts was that it may be some sort of Morse code using notes as dots and breaks as dashes. That... didn't turn out so hot. What I got when I ran it through a translator was:

. . . - . . . - . . . - . .

became:

EEETEEETEEETEE

Which doesn't make any sense. Inverting it doesn't work either, not that I expected it to... anyone else have any thoughts?

EDIT: I also just got an email back from our... well, for lack of a better word, poet.

I asked:

[thebruce]

Ok quick link recap:

page 1: http://bewilderedtemperament.com
"page 2"

[hae_jin]

I sent email about bells

I receive this reply

[Pixiestix]

[The Grim Axel]

I sent an email.

[Zobot257]

wilh1206, that's excellent work!

I hadn't noticed that the bells might correspond to a phone number! Even if that hasn't seemed to work out, its really insightful.

In addition, you seem to have obtained quite a lot of new information from our mysterious penpal. Among other things, that they is not alone, and the way they speak of the, for lack of a better phrase, "ringer of the bells", it seems like they are being hunted...

My question about the phone number bit: You listed, with my friend's suggestions and yours, 4 viable phone numbers. While I will admit theres a possibility my friend erred, it looks like you only tried 2 of what could be 4 possible phone numbers to call. My other question about your phone number idea is I don't quite understand where you got the numbers you tried from. Is g = 1, for example, a musical thing?

Still, great idea.

If the phone number thing doesn't pan out, my personal theory is that the bells are some sort of code that will spell another word for the website we know of. I just can't seem to see what code that would be....+

[The Grim Axel]

I actually tried all 4 phone numbers. I started by simply picking the first note to start as 1 and counted the notes on a piano from there. I was using a virtual piano located HERE

However, taking a look at the work in my previous post, I fudged it up pretty bad... SO I'll take this opportunity to make it a little more clear and fix my mistakes. (I'll edit the false info out of my old post.)

I'll start with your friends suggestion:

[Zobot257]

Well wilh1206, keep trying... at least you have an idea. I don't really know how to figure this one out... I'll think about it more... it could be a code, but I don't know a lot about codes, so I have no idea where to even start. Our patron hasn't responded back to my most recent email, so the PM may be asleep or our patron may just not want to or is unable to respond back now.

In any event, I'll try to come up with SOMETHING...

[GuestUser17]

Spectrogram of Bells

[Zobot257]

Alright... not that this really helps us solve the Bell puzzle, but I got another email from our friend whilst I slumbered:

[booba]

Heres the file converted to DTMF tones:

EDIT or not. I think I just generated some random tones