Yesterday we rang the quarter of cyclic spliced major that I wrote about a little while ago. It was satisfying after two unsuccessful attempts, and we rang it very well. The composition is a miniature version of David Pipe's popular "cyclic six" maximus. Two of the methods were previously unnamed: Albany Little Treble Place Major (named after Albany Quadrant, of course, although we rang the quarter at Angela's house) and Oxford Differential Little Bob Major. The other methods are Hull, which is a straightforward extension of Hull Surprise Minor, and Bristol (alternatively Norwich can be rung, which is what I wrote about previously).
Yesterday was the Oxford DG handbell day in Reading, which logged an impressive 31 quarters in BellBoard involving 35 people. The next Scottish handbell day will be on 7th May, and we have 21 people signed up. Slightly smaller than the ODG day, but when you consider that the Scottish...
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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...
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I must confess, which I think I have written before, that I have never been much of a Stedman conductor. Our recent campaign of ringing Stedman Triples regularly has given me the opportunity and motivation to try to work out how I can see more of what's going on. One...
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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...
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Last week we attempted another quarter of Stedman Triples, this time with me conducting. We didn't get it, partly because of internet problems. We tried again yesterday and succeeded. I rang the tenors, which (as expected) reduced the task of ringing Stedman and putting the bobs in to a manageable...
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We rang another quarter of Stedman last week, this time with Julia conducting. There was a false start but after that we rang well, and Julia did some impressive correcting of mistakes. We're not ringing this week, but next week it's my turn to conduct, which I will do from...
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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...
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I have mentioned before that we have been ringing handbells on Sunday afternoons with three of the Glasgow ringers: Jessica, Colin and Zoé. Yesterday only Colin and Zoé could come, and Tina was busy with Dorothy, so we had a six-bell session. We started with a 360 of Bob Minor, which...
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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...
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We scored a quarter yesterday, after a couple of short false starts. Generally the ringing was good, and we even managed to recover from a few mistakes. It will be important to have some resilience if we're going to be able to ring a peal.
I was impressed by both...
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