I've said before that one of the benefits of online ringing with the Five O'Clock Club has been picking up some new compositions, especially using non-standard calls. Today I learnt new compositions of Kent Royal and Maximus.

The original plan was to ring a quarter of Kent Maximus. We've rung...

This afternoon we rang Jessica's first handbell quarter: Plain Bob Minor with her on the trebles. We had an attempt a few weeks ago, which was going well but we had to stop when we realised we had miscalculated the time available before needing to drop our son Thomas off...

In the campaign of trying to understand the structure of methods by thinking of them as compositions, let's move on to treble bob. Now the base method is treble bob hunting instead of plain hunting, and again we will consider variations with respect to pure treble bob hunting as if...

Only partly.    It certainly isn’t the whole story.   I am starting to find it hard to describe what I am doing and now understand why others have said the same.  What I am doing is blending existing knowledge with new knowledge and skills.  The elements I can identify...

In Little Bob, the treble turns round in 4th place, causing two bells to dodge above it. Apart from that, it's the same as Plain Bob. Now I think of it, it's not obvious that turning the treble round in 4th place produces a method with Plain Bob lead ends...

St Clement's College Bob Minor, to use its full title, is another method with a simple structure that we can understand as a composition.

As always, the initial coursing order is 124653. The 6th, 5th and 3rd in turn make 3rds, jumping over the 2nd and the 4th as they...

The methods I looked at in the previous article had 6th place lead ends, so what about 2nd place methods? The simplest is Plain Bob. As before, the coursing order during the lead is 124653. At the lead end the 3rd makes 2nds, which jumps it over all the bells...

I have been thinking about how to understand the internal structure of methods by viewing  them as compositions. This isn't particularly related to handbells, except that some of the methods I'm going to look at are methods with simple structures that make them easy for handbell ringing.

To see what...

It's been an intensive Yorkshire-fest in the last few days. On Thursday we rang a quarter of royal, which Tina called as practice for her upcoming peal of Yorkshire Major. One thing that tripped us up a couple of times was thinking that everyone above 2nd place dodges when the...

As our target was Surprise Minor, we initially looked at a method we didn’t know at all,  but then decided to switch to Cambridge. To start with the conductor called every place notation.   Even with this aid, we frequently collapsed with errors but gradually rang further. As we got...