# Any campanologists here \[ringing changes\]?

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**Created:** [July 18, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-campanologists-here-ringing-changes/791605 "2017-07-18T22:10:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-campanologists-here-ringing-changes/791605/1 "2017-07-18T22:10:39Z")

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I’ve only seen this kind of bell ringing or read about it in British murder mysteries. In those contexts, it seems to be a dangerous occupation, as at least one bell ringer gets bumped off per story. Usually thrown from the tower.

This [article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_ringing) makes it sound complicated. Has anyone here done this?

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-campanologists-here-ringing-changes/791605/2 "2017-07-18T23:56:21Z")

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I once wrote a nice computer program that played the changes for one particular kind of change-ringing. I would really like to see algorithms for more kinds, so I could whip up similar programs.

The article in the Britannica gives diagrams…but not really enough to expand into a full algorithm.

Meanwhile, only thing I can add is that I love listening to change-ringing! It has some of the joy of wind-chimes, but is much more logical in structure.

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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-campanologists-here-ringing-changes/791605/3 "2017-07-19T01:13:10Z")

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I read Dorthothy L. Sayers’s **The Nine Tailors** about 35 years ago! Also Robert Aickman’s incredibly spooky short story “Ringing the Changes.”

I’d love to take part but so far, no one has asked me.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-campanologists-here-ringing-changes/791605/4 "2017-07-19T01:52:18Z")

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> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> I read Dorthothy L. Sayers’s **The Nine Tailors** about 35 years ago! Also Robert Aickman’s incredibly spooky short story “Ringing the Changes.”
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> I’d love to take part but so far, no one has asked me.

Yes! I was thinking about Dorothy Sayers, too.

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-campanologists-here-ringing-changes/791605/5 "2017-07-19T04:03:50Z")

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I’ve never done it myself, but a friend was part of a change-ringing group at the University of Chicago for many years.