We often discuss rule-based ringing, but what about exception-based ringing?
There are lots of examples. Ipswich is Cambridge with plain hunting at the half lead; Quedgeley is Yorkshire with far-dodge-near in 5-6; New Cambridge is Cambridge with dodge and lead in 6th place bell; Maypole is Bristol with the treble...
After discovering Nottinghamshire Delight as a major method with the key features of Fermanagh, I started thinking about other major methods that have key features of the royal or maximus methods that I'm interested in. There are lots of surprise major methods with Zanussi points at the back, but what...
The plan for Monday this week was to practise Fermanagh Surprise Royal, but we were one short because of illness. As Nottinghamshire Delight Major has a similar structure - Cornwall with some wrong hunting inserted into the frontwork - we decided to ring a quarter of it, and managed very...
Last week we rang a quarter of Plain Bob Major with Colin, which we had not quite managed to complete on handbell day. It went smoothly. For a change, I called this composition, which is a nice one-liner.
1280 Plain Bob Major W B H 23456 -------------- - 2 2...
It's been a while, but now I can get back to writing about ringing, instead of writing about writing about ringing. First, though, let me report that we went to the Ringing Roadshow and sold nearly all of the books that we took. There were also quite a few sales...
Tina, Angela, Barbara and Susannah have been working on this project for a little while, and yesterday they succeeded with a peal of Yorkshire which was also Tina's first handbell peal as conductor and Angela's first of surprise on an inside pair.
Scottish Association
Edinburgh
27 House o'Hill Crescent
Saturday...
For the Five O'Clock Club today it seemed that we had a band for treble bob royal, but there was a question of whether we could try something other than Kent or Oxford. I suggested Albion Little Treble Bob, which is a treble version of Little Bob. At a late...
Yesterday Jonathan and Angela arranged a quarter of Anniversary Delight Major as a compliment to Martin Mellor, the SACR Publicity Officer, and his partner Ewan Halley. It's a variation of Pudsey, with the place notation x58x16 at the beginning of the lead replaced by 56x56.18 and symmetrically at the end...
The top peal on BellBoard at the moment is up-and-coming youngster Michael Shaw calling Horton's Four on handbells, for his first peal as conductor. From 3-4. This is really impressive - very well done, Michael.
When we rang Horton's Four with the Albany Quadrant band, I summarised the handbell performances...
This question came up at home this week because Tina is organising a peal of Yorkshire, which will be her first handbell peal as conductor. What she's looking for is a straightforward composition to call, perhaps with handbell-friendly features.
A straightforward and well-known composition is Pitstow's:
5088 Yorkshire Surprise Major...