Today we rang a peal at Peter Kirton's house in Perth, which thanks to Simon Aves' research we also know was the first peal in the city (there are no tower bells). It was originally planned to be Grandsire Caters, but Ian Bell had to pull out so we rang Yorkshire Major instead. It was also Peter's first of surprise in hand as conductor. He called Simon Humphrey's well-known composition, which is a nice three-part with 5-6 fixed, and it went smoothly.
Simon Rudd has just rung his 1000th handbell quarter in Ringing Room.
Where are you based?
Norfolk
When and where did you learn to ring handbells?
My first real handbell ringing was during David Sparling’s time at Imperial College, when we rang a couple of times with Roger Bailey in...
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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...
Where are you based?
Yatton, North Somerset
When and where did you learn to ring handbells?
Bristol. Initially in 2017, but didn't really get going until late 2020.
Who has influenced your handbell ringing?
Philip Earis was a big early influence. Done most of my subsequent handbell ringing with Lucy...
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I've decided to start a series of short interviews with handbell ringers, using a format that I've seen in a couple of magazines. Everyone is asked the same questions, with fairly short answers. Yesterday evening I sent invitations to about 70 people whose addresses I happen to have, with a...
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I recently (belatedly, like with everything else) discovered the concept of "reaction video" - just in case you don't know, this means an online video response to another online video. Possibly they can go back and forth, or in cycles. As far as I know, no-one has made a reaction...
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Here's an updated table of quarter peal statistics.
Year | Quarters | Ringers | Conductors |
---|---|---|---|
2018 | 20 | 21 | 8 |
2019 | 38 | 28 | 9 |
2020 | 15 | 13 | 6 |
2021 | 66 | 35 | 8 |
2022 | 85 | 39 | 13 |
2023 | 50 | 33 | 14 |
Quite a drop in the number of quarters compared to 2022; slightly fewer ringers...
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We're spending Christmas and New Year in the Washington DC area, visiting Tina's family. Thanks to Tina's presidential blog, our presence was detected by Bryn and Leland Reimer and Myles Dakan, who are all coincidentally spending New Year nearby. They are based in Northampton, Massachusetts, so this was another...
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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...
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It's nearly time for the next Scottish handbell day, which will be the first one this year. Normally we have two per year, in May and October, but this year we couldn't fit handbells into May as well as all the coronation ringing. We've got 20 people coming, which is...
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We rang a peal of cyclic spliced maximus in the tower recently, which is beyond what I can ring on handbells at the moment although while learning the methods I did try ringing two bells on Mabel with varying success. I find that practising on handbells is a good test...
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