Method Strategies

Method strategies describe tips or hints or full explanations about how to ring or learn specific methods.
 

Cornwall

We often discuss rule-based ringing, but what about exception-based ringing?

There are lots of examples. Ipswich is Cambridge with plain hunting at the half lead; Quedgeley is Yorkshire with far-dodge-near in 5-6; New Cambridge is Cambridge with dodge and lead in 6th place bell; Maypole is Bristol with the treble...

ZanussiSgurr a' ChaorachainMadurai

After discovering Nottinghamshire Delight as a major method with the key features of Fermanagh, I started thinking about other major methods that have key features of the royal or maximus methods that I'm interested in. There are lots of surprise major methods with Zanussi points at the back, but what...

Buckfastleigh

This is about methods in general rather than handbell ringing, but I came to it while pondering Buckfastleigh as a possible method to ring next time we find ourselves with only four people. It's one of the methods from Chandler's 23-spliced, but isn't rung very often by itself. I've never...

This week's Ringing World (20th May 2022, number 5795, if you are reading later) has an interesting article by Richard Smith about a new method: Jura Bob Caters. I will try not to reproduce too much of what he writes, which includes fascinating material about how he designed the method...