Monday this week (22nd March) was the 120th anniversary of the first peal of Bristol Surprise Major. Ideally the occasion should have been marked with a 5120 of Bristol, but we can't ring in person at the moment and I didn't have the energy to try to arrange and...
I have run a couple of online conducting courses recently, and it was pleasing to see that one of the students, Lindsay Powell, has just called her first handbell quarter. One of the ideas I discussed in the course was getting to know certain coursing orders that produce musical...
I have been experimenting with the idea of superimposing a diagram showing the progress of a pair of bells along their lines, on top of the animation from Handbell Stadium. Here is what I have come up with, showing the tenors for Kent Minor. There is also a commentary on...
On Monday we tried a quarter of York Maximus, with a band that didn't include a star conductor - so I ended up calling it. It was a little more difficult than we expected, and we didn't score. Also we didn't manage to ring a plain course afterwards. Oh well...
The winning streak came to an end, of course - we lost a quarter of York Maximus, which I might write about another time. But this evening we succeeded first time with Iddesleigh, which is one of the methods I wrote about last week. At the weekend I also...