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Hi everyone, 

Just got myself a nice bellmatic, I'm enjoying it and would like to know if there's a way to change the way it sounds, like maybe modify the sounding piece of metal, it would be great if one could play with the sound.

Thanks alot guys.

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I'm guessing that if you made the special spring that makes the noise from a different material or, more importantly, if you changed the dimension and shape, the sound would be different... That's the only thing that I can think of...

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