Peelers are Useless…?
By the way, for anyone interested, I’ve found some change-ringing diagrams.
This is the most complex I ever got up to: Grandsire Doubles, but it can get ridiculously complex.
The mad thing is that people actually commit this stuff to memory.
Further info: the top note bell is known as the “treble”, and is numbered 1 on the diagrams, and the bottom note (might be 6 or 8 or whatever depending on the number of bells) is the “tenor”.
Don’t most US bell-towers have a sniper at the top of them?
Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, ask “who put all this shit on my doorstep?”
Nah!
If you give bell ringers shit, they’ll give it right back?
If you don’t like bells ringing, don’t answer your bell?
>> What The name For Elaborate Bell Ringing?
> Campanology.
Cacophony actually.
Be very careful opening your front door after that remark !
i too am a lapsed campanologist …
(JJIMM, grandsire was about my limit too !)
You only really need to memorise the blue line which is usually
symetrical. In most methods (that i knew), all the bells do the
same pattern but start at a different place. Then you only need
to learn a few extras (eg “bobs”) during which you swap places
on the blue line with one of the other bells. Once you know the
few rules you can keep going for hours.
Most i ever did was a quarter peal which takes about 45 minutes.
Right. Next time I read The Nine Tailors, I’m going to pester Siege and jjimm for translations of all that stuff about “dodging” or “laying her blows behind” or whatever it was. (I’ve probably got that completely wrong, but never mind.)