Among Sallies and Bobs
musings on change ringing
Harlington Alliance Minor
This post is the first of what I hope will be an occasional series, where I simply explain a method in words. How ringers think about a method in practical terms, when actually ringing, is often rather different from how we represent methods in diagrams! So learning a method generally involves some sort of translation…
Keep readingFrom Plain Bob Doubles to Triples
This post is aimed at ringers who have recently “moved on” from Plain Bob Doubles, and those who teach such ringers. Plain Bob Doubles has a lot of features that aren’t often explicitly taught, usually because it would be too much information at once for the ringers learning. But continuing to work on it and…
Keep readingUnderstanding Bell Handling with One Weird Trick!
Handling a bell is complicated. Part of what makes it difficult to understand is just that it is a series of actions, and many components and consequences of the actions aren’t visible. But we can make visual representations of things, and sometimes that can be a big help with understanding! Look at this cute little…
Keep reading“Better never than late”
Before I learned to ring I did a lot of contra dancing, which is what Americans did to English country dances. One caller would say at the end of his beginner lessons, “the rule is ‘better never than late’.” The music and the other dancers aren’t going to slow down or stop, so if you…
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