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.
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...
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We did it! Change-Ringing on Handbells (Volume 2: Advanced Techniques) is now available from Amazon.
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Tina and I will be at the Ringing Roadshow 2022 on Sunday 4th September, launching Change-Ringing on Handbells (Volume 2: Advanced Techniques) as well as selling Volume 1 and mugs with the interlocking handbell design. We also look forward to talking to visitors about their experiences of learning to ring...
This article appeared as a three-part series in The Ringing World in 2022, issues 5800 (24th June), 5801 (1st July) and 5802 (8th July). It is not handbell-oriented, although we can aspire to ring all the methods on handbells as well as in the tower. I have restored a couple...
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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
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Among its many features, Composition Library allows one to create collections, which can contain methods, compositions or both. I have defined a collection consisting of many of my favourite handbell-friendly compositions, both quarters and peals. Each composition has a brief note describing the features that make it especially suitable...
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We did it! We rang a handbell peal on the exact 90th anniversary of the first Scottish Association handbell peal, at the same address: 66 Hillhead Street. In 1932 it was the home of Stephen H Wood, a member of the Glasgow band who conducted the peal. These days it's...
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Tina and I have just booked a stand at the Ringing Roadshow, which is taking place on Sunday 4th September after the Central Council meeting in Nottingham. This gives us a target for the launch of "Change-Ringing on Handbells (Volume 2: Advanced Techniques)", which is nearing completion. It's substantially written...
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We've done a lot of ringing in the last two weeks, a lot of it on handbells, and I've rung with an unusually large number of people. I had a visit to the Edinburgh handbell band, which included losing a quarter of Bristol and practising some other surprise major methods...
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This week's Ringing World (20th May 2022, number 5795, if you are reading later) has an interesting article by Richard Smith about a new method: Jura Bob Caters. I will try not to reproduce too much of what he writes, which includes fascinating material about how he designed the method...
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