I · STRIKE
Early damper
The ball falls before the note finishes. We count decay in the loft; we do not applaud a number on a screen.
Peal 19 · Plaza · decay-true
Let the note hang before the damper lies about the sky.
Hang Gate is a carillon loft, not a flight kiosk. Linnea times the ball the way a ringer times bronze: we hear the strike, we count the decay, and we decide whether prairie wind already ate the overtone.
II · PARTIAL
Catalog hang
A box hang-time can still be mute if the factory never let the overtone live. Shine on a face is polish, not decay.
III · TENOR
One-side mute
Heel sings, toe dies. That wedge only drops toward Sibley. We hear each partial; we refuse a courtesy blend.
IV · TREBLE
Wind-eaten peal
Prairie air eats the high partial first. A note that hung in a garage will not hang on the river bluff.
Why a carillon loft
A catalog hang is a brochure. Decay is the peal.
Players arrive with a hang-time they liked in a magazine. Minnesota River humidity does not read magazines. It reads whether the note still lives after a March at Minneopa, and whether a wedge that looked lofty in a basement has already gone mute at Kato.
Piet hears the partials. Linnea decides lift, leave, or keep the damper down. Willa names the prairie hours. Nobody here lifts a dead damper to make a screen happier.
Heard on the plaza
Peals people actually rang
My pitching face still felt floaty. Piet counted the decay and the damper was already down. We lifted. Sibley stopped dropping the ball like a brick.
They asked whether I play Minneopa in a west wind or the plaza in still air. I said both. Willa said pick a prairie or keep two peals. Useful hush.