I was looking over my CompLib collection Change-Ringing on Handbells (Favourite Compositions) and realised that it didn't have anything for Kent Royal or Maximus. I added the quarters that I wrote about a while ago and then started thinking about peals.
The reason I haven't written about peal compositions of...
I have seen some discussion on Facebook about the fact that 17th December this year is the 65th anniversary of the death of Dorothy L Sayers, author of the classic bellringing-themed mystery "The Nine Tailors". Some people might be planning commemorative ringing. 17th December is a Saturday and the Albany...
This week we finally managed to get a ten-bell band together, and we succeeded with a quarter of Fermanagh. Like many of the methods I've been advocating as a modern surprise royal repertoire, it has a clear separation between frontwork and backwork. There are also many minor and major...
Last week I had a trip to London, as I had been invited to attend Alastair Donaldson's inaugural lecture as Professor of Computing at Imperial College. (I have seen the name Alastair Donaldson on BellBoard, but this is a different one!) The connection is that Alastair is a graduate (BSc...
Yesterday we rang a quarter of Bristol (Major) because Peter wanted to practise the 3-4 position. Around this time last year, Jonathan asked for a composition in which one of the pairs wouldn't ring the coursing position - he was going to call a quarter in which one of the...
This week's Ringing World (number 5820) has a lovely review of Volume 2 by Tom Hinks. It begins:
"In this outstanding new volume of Change-Ringing on Handbells, Tina Stoecklin and Simon Gay have distilled their deep experience of learning and teaching handbell ringing into a clear, concise and cogent guide...
We often discuss rule-based ringing, but what about exception-based ringing?
There are lots of examples. Ipswich is Cambridge with plain hunting at the half lead; Quedgeley is Yorkshire with far-dodge-near in 5-6; New Cambridge is Cambridge with dodge and lead in 6th place bell; Maypole is Bristol with the treble...
Back in the days of ringing with Roger Bailey at Imperial College in the early 1990s, it frequently happened that handbell ringers visiting London would contact Roger and ask whether he could organise a peal for them. He was always happy to oblige. I have had it in mind for...
After discovering Nottinghamshire Delight as a major method with the key features of Fermanagh, I started thinking about other major methods that have key features of the royal or maximus methods that I'm interested in. There are lots of surprise major methods with Zanussi points at the back, but what...
The plan for Monday this week was to practise Fermanagh Surprise Royal, but we were one short because of illness. As Nottinghamshire Delight Major has a similar structure - Cornwall with some wrong hunting inserted into the frontwork - we decided to ring a quarter of it, and managed very...