Our trip to Loch Sween House, formerly known as Dun a' Bhuilg and location of the second and third Scottish Association handbell peals, is coming up very soon. We will have nine good surprise royal ringers, so it's an opportunity to work on a 12-bell project and we have Bristol...
Yesterday we went to Penrith and rang a satisfying peal of Kent Maximus. I think I can now give my final word on handbell-friendly compositions, to supplement my article about two-part compositions.
The composition I called was this one by Don Morrison:
5040 Kent Treble Bob Maximus Donald...
There was a bit of method history on BellBoard recently. A handbell band rang a peal of Colston Surprise Maximus, which was the first peal of the method as it was originally rung in spliced. I can't remember exactly who told me this, possibly David Brown, but Colston was...
Well, not new, but newly refurbished. When we went to Nottingham for the Ringing Roadshow in September, we handed over our Taylor 12 to Lewis Benfield for an overhaul. After doing the work he dropped them off at my dad's house because he was there for some ringing, and yesterday...
I was looking over my CompLib collection Change-Ringing on Handbells (Favourite Compositions) and realised that it didn't have anything for Kent Royal or Maximus. I added the quarters that I wrote about a while ago and then started thinking about peals.
The reason I haven't written about peal compositions of...
Last week I had a trip to London, as I had been invited to attend Alastair Donaldson's inaugural lecture as Professor of Computing at Imperial College. (I have seen the name Alastair Donaldson on BellBoard, but this is a different one!) The connection is that Alastair is a graduate (BSc...
A couple of weeks ago I rang David Pipe's "particles" peal of spliced maximus, on tower bells at Tulloch. It's a cyclic 12-part consisting of methods designed to generate lots of music based on forward and backward runs of consecutive bells. Most of the methods are best learned from...
The next handbell peal at Albany Quadrant is likely to be the day after our handbell day at the beginning of May. It's a little unclear whether we will have five people or six. If five, I would like to go for Bristol Royal again as it will be a...
The top performance on BellBoard at the moment is this peal:
Guild of St Cuileáin
Reading, Berkshire
26 Redlands Road
Sunday, 27 March 2022 in 3h 9 (12 in F)
5040 Spliced Treble Dodging Maximus (8m)
672 Bristol Surprise, Rigel Surprise; 624 Ariel Surprise, Avon Delight, Phobos Surprise, Strathclyde Surprise...
We had a good crack at Cambridge Maximus on Monday, but didn't quite get to the end of a quarter. Nevertheless, it was a satisfying evening, as it's a while since we've tried it and usually we have struggled to ring a plain course. We've booked another attempt next Thursday...