The UK needs campanologists for the Coronation

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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A 'campanologist" is a bell ringer, and “campanology” is the study and practice of bell ringing. Traditional ringing (or “change ringing”) is done on a set of bells (usually five or more) - ringing them one at a time in a specific order.
Campanology - Wikipedia

Promoters of the upcoming Coronation want the bells to ring in every church in the UK on Coronation Day (May 3), and they are afraid that they can’t find enough ringers.
King Charles coronation: ‘We want bell-ringers in every church’ - BBC News

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Nice idea but the coronation is only a few months away. Is that enough time for people to become comfortable with change ringing?

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Where is @Quasimodem when you need him.

mmm

(I know, long gone)

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Maybe Prince Harry could take part by bell ringing.

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Campanology? Doesn’t ring a bell for me.

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It’s not exactly a rare tradition. There were similar projects for the Millennium, the various royal jubilees and the 2012 Olympics.

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I’d be happy to pay for my local campanologists to fly to the U.K. so long as they promise not to come back.

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The suffix -ist is common for a skilled musician, but -ologist usually implies an expert in a branch of knowledge. Musicologist vs musician. Were bellringers traditionally also experts in the whole body of knowledge about the technology of bell design, manufacture, tuning etc.?

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Ooh, pick me! I played handbells in a church choir. We did everything from “Amazing Grace” to “The Muppet Theme” (which was surprisingly difficult). Where do I send my application?

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I am a Campagnologist

That’s because you’re a ding-dong!

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Ding dong, you say?

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There are 2 types of change ringing … method ringing, where the sequence changes
with each ‘ring’ (so you have to memorise the sequence), and call changing where the sequence change is called out by someone (so you don’t).
Two months should be enough for call changing but not method imho.
I used to ring, but haven’t for >30 years (and i’m not going to volunteer !)

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Maybe Frank DellaPenna would be interested?

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I never tire of this - what happened when the then government minister responsible launched the Olympic version (somehow the words “bell” and “end” come to mind)