Another day travelling; this time a quick trip to Oxford. Well, not so quick really as the M25 was a little busy on the return trip. I had to take a picture of my birthplace, our house in the middle of the street, a 1930's semi-detatched ('duplex' in American English); and pictures of a copper beech; a tall horse-chestnut tree; the Cherwell in University Parks and South Park from the top of which many paintings and photographs of 'this city of dreaming spires' have been made.
I'm still trying to get the hang of taking pictures with this camera and am not taking the time to adjust quality and size; bear with me . . .
Made it home in time to ring, which brings us to 'The Blue Line'.
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Tower bells are rung full circle, that is each pull of the rope swings the bell 360° 1234546 is rounds. When calls are made only adjacent bells can change places: e.g. 124356. When ringing a method (the example is one lead of Plain Bob Minor) more than one pair of bells may change places. Copy the example and with a blue coloured pencil trace the path of one number. If you use 6 the result will look like a wide V on its side. 6 ends at the bold number five position. This is one twelve change lead. Trace the path followed by number five and note the position it ends at (3) and repeat (2 then 4) and four ends in position number six where you started. Link the blue lines into one continuous line of fives leads and the result shows the pattern of the number six bell through a plain course of plain bob minor. In the video example the conductor calls, "Go bob doubles" this is the signal for the first five bells to begin ringing the changes of plain bob doubles. 'Doubles' refers to five bell methods; 'minor' to six; 'triples', seven; ten bells is 'royal' and twelve, 'maximus'. Unfortunately you can only see the 3,4,5 and sixth (tenor) which always rings in last place or 'drums' in this video.EDIT 20 January 2014: My striking is pretty poor!
Tower bells are rung full circle, that is each pull of the rope swings the bell 360° 1234546 is rounds. When calls are made only adjacent bells can change places: e.g. 124356. When ringing a method (the example is one lead of Plain Bob Minor) more than one pair of bells may change places. Copy the example and with a blue coloured pencil trace the path of one number. If you use 6 the result will look like a wide V on its side. 6 ends at the bold number five position. This is one twelve change lead. Trace the path followed by number five and note the position it ends at (3) and repeat (2 then 4) and four ends in position number six where you started. Link the blue lines into one continuous line of fives leads and the result shows the pattern of the number six bell through a plain course of plain bob minor. In the video example the conductor calls, "Go bob doubles" this is the signal for the first five bells to begin ringing the changes of plain bob doubles. 'Doubles' refers to five bell methods; 'minor' to six; 'triples', seven; ten bells is 'royal' and twelve, 'maximus'. Unfortunately you can only see the 3,4,5 and sixth (tenor) which always rings in last place or 'drums' in this video.EDIT 20 January 2014: My striking is pretty poor!
Plain bob doubles:
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