We like the idea of trying to ring Norman Smith's 23-spliced Surprise Major. First rung in 1966, the composition has become a popular challenge. Andrew Craddock's PealBase web site includes statistics on peals of 23-spliced. At the time of writing (26th September 2014) it has been rung 639 times, but only 30 times...
A few weeks ago I went to Edinburgh to ring a quarter of Cambridge Royal with Ian, Barbara, Susannah and Nick. After Nick went home we practised Malpas, which is part of the Edinburgh band's project to ring Mark Davies' series of spliced peals. Subsequently they rang a quarter of...
By a strange sequence of actions, I noticed that Christian Peckham has produced a very clever variation of the Cyclic Four quarter peal.
I was searching CompLib for a quarter peal composition of Elliptic Jump Major, using the "extended search" feature which tests all of the stored compositions against...
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...
Last weekend was an intensive ringing weekend, although not quite as intensive as originally planned. It all started with an invitation to attempt Cyclic Six Maximus on handbells as part of a weekend of peals celebrating the 25th anniversary of the first performance of David Pipe's classic composition. That was...
Yesterday we rang a quarter of Rhodium Surprise Major (diagram from CompLib.org, above), and as I wrote last time, I will explain why later. It's one of the methods named after chemical elements (I believe they were mostly composed by Tony Cox), so we've rung two of them now, the...
I'm away on a short business trip this week, but the rest of the band were available on Monday, so I left them an assignment: to name Springboig Surprise Major by ringing a quarter of it, which they duly did. The diagram above is from CompLib.org. I've been wanting for...
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...
Today we rang a peal at Peter Kirton's house in Perth, which thanks to Simon Aves' research we also know was the first peal in the city (there are no tower bells). It was originally planned to be Grandsire Caters, but Ian Bell had to pull out so we rang...
Last Monday I opened the handbell bag and moths flew out. Honestly, I am not joking! We have a bit of a moth problem at Albany Quadrant, with a few holes in the carpet, but now they have invaded the handbell bag too. I will redouble my efforts to eradicate...