Today we gave our refurbished Taylor bells a longer tryout with a good peal of Bristol, arranged at the last minute. It was fairly lucky that we managed to get the band together, as Alex had train problems coming from Dunblane and Julia was nearly flooded off the M74.

So...

Last weekend I rang a tower bell peal at Guildford, which had originally been planned for June 2020, cancelled because of covid, eventually rearranged for April this year, cancelled again because more and more of the band were catching covid, and now finally scored. I arranged to stay for the...

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...

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...

A couple of weeks ago I rang David Pipe's "particles" peal of spliced maximus, on tower bells at Tulloch. It's a cyclic 12-part consisting of methods designed to generate lots of music based on forward and backward runs of consecutive bells. Most of the methods are best learned from...

Among its many features, Composition Library allows one to create collections, which can contain methods, compositions or both. I have defined a collection consisting of many of my favourite handbell-friendly compositions, both quarters and peals. Each composition has a brief note describing the features that make it especially suitable...

The next handbell peal at Albany Quadrant is likely to be the day after our handbell day at the beginning of May. It's a little unclear whether we will have five people or six. If five, I would like to go for Bristol Royal again as it will be a...

The top performance on BellBoard at the moment is this peal:

Guild of St Cuileáin
Reading, Berkshire
26 Redlands Road
Sunday, 27 March 2022 in 3h 9 (12 in F)
5040 Spliced Treble Dodging Maximus (8m) 
672 Bristol Surprise, Rigel Surprise; 624 Ariel Surprise, Avon Delight, Phobos Surprise, Strathclyde Surprise...

We rang another quarter of Stedman last week, this time with Julia conducting. There was a false start but after that we rang well, and Julia did some impressive correcting of mistakes. We're not ringing this week, but next week it's my turn to conduct, which I will do from...