This quarter caught my eye last week: https://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=1837518

The method is Elliptic Jump Royal, an extension of Elliptic Jump Minor which was rung in 2022 and seems to have been constructed by Jadd Virji. It's a simple idea using jump changes, which is fun once in a while (and much easier on handbells than tower bells). On Monday we rang a couple of plain courses of Elliptic Jump Major, shown below to explain the pattern (diagram from CompLib).

The treble plain hunts, and the other bells mostly plain hunt except for jumping from 3rd place (at handstroke) to 1st place (at backstroke). 2nd place bell is like 4th place bell in St Clement's, but starting the long dodging immediately. So the first strange thing is that the trebles start by crossing in 1-2 and then both moving up one place as the 4th jumps ahead of them. On an inside pair, both bells jump near the front, and how close together the jumps occur depends on the pair. Jumping briefly puts the pair into a different hunting position, until the second jump restores it to the original position. When one bell is 2nd place bell it's even stranger because when the other bell comes to the front there is the manoeuvre in which the bells are adjacent but both move up a place simultaneously.

The place bell order ends up being the reverse of Plain Bob because the inside bells advance relative to the treble when they jump, instead of delaying when they dodge.

It takes some concentration but the second time through we rang it pretty well. It's notable that both of the quarters mentioned above were fairly slow: 48 minutes for minor and 62 minutes for royal.

I'm now keen to ring the first quarter of major. Possibly I have already exhausted the tolerance of the Glasgow band, but there's a handbell day coming up with a fresh supply of unwitting victims, so I will see what I can do.