The methods I looked at in the previous article had 6th place lead ends, so what about 2nd place methods? The simplest is Plain Bob. As before, the coursing order during the lead is 124653. At the lead end the 3rd makes 2nds, which jumps it over all the bells...
I have been thinking about how to understand the internal structure of methods by viewing them as compositions. This isn't particularly related to handbells, except that some of the methods I'm going to look at are methods with simple structures that make them easy for handbell ringing.
To see what...
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...
During the last few weeks, Tina and I have extended our handbell ringing circle to include Caroline, who was put in contact with us by Lesley Belcher (chair of ART). Caroline was confident ringing Plain Bob, so the idea was to progress towards Kent and Oxford and beyond. We worked...
This morning Tina, Julia and I rang a peal of Cambridge, Kent and Plain Bob Minor in Ringing Room. This is only the fourth peal in Ringing Room, and the first handbell peal, i.e. with everyone ringing two bells each. (There have been two peals in which one person...
For quarters of Cambridge Minor I usually call three wrongs, three homes for the short block, giving 600 and a quarter peal length of 1320. Many people prefer to call something slightly shorter, and one well-known calling for a 576 is to call the tenor 4ths, wrong, home, 4ths, wrong, three...
A couple of generations ago, nearly every ringer could complete a plain course of Plain Bob Minor in hand - it was a part of learning to ring. A friend of mine has recounted how she learned in a classroom, with all the ringers holding two bells (not necessarily a...
Yesterday we were supposed to be ringing a quarter of Lincolnshire Royal at Angela's house. After the instruction in the afternoon to begin social distancing, we had to cancel it. Cancellation of all tower bell ringing swiftly followed. There has been some speculation about remote handbell ringing via video conferencing...
Last night our Albany Quadrant band joined the many hundreds of bell ringers who have rung quarter peals to support the campaign 'Strike Back Against Blood Cancer', by ringing a quarter peal of Julie McDonnell Slow Course Minor (named after the originator of the campaign).
The method itself is simple...
There has been some discussion this week on the change-ringers email list about ways of thinking about methods for handbells, and in particular the role of place notation. I have taken this as a prompt to try out some thoughts about how to get started on ringing Surprise Minor, because...