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).
Handbell day went well, with a few quarter peal successes and a range of useful practice sessions. Everyone seemed to enjoy it. We had mixed results with the Top and Up. Jonathan's group managed to ring the whole touch of spliced maximus, while the other groups got as far as...
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This is about methods in general rather than handbell ringing, but I came to it while pondering Buckfastleigh as a possible method to ring next time we find ourselves with only four people. It's one of the methods from Chandler's 23-spliced, but isn't rung very often by itself. I've never...
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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...
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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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