April 2024

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Simon Melen is famous for ringing several peals on four handbells, including Orion Surprise Maximus.

Where are you based?

Ticknall, Derbyshire, England

When and where did you learn to ring handbells?

I was taught to ring handbells by my, then, father-in-law, David Marshall in Long Eaton, Derbyshire in about 1983...

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Where are you based?

Oxford

When and where did you learn to ring handbells?

Cambridge, late 1980s, mostly with Simon Gay.

Who has influenced your handbell ringing?

Simon Gay originally and then a big long gap before some collective enthusiasm in Oxford with mutual influence.

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