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size=2>Looking through the Bell News there are several references to "half-pull
ringing". I am assuming this is a reference to change ringing with changes
occuring at handstroke and backstroke. Was the alternative call changes or
was there an era of whole-pull change ringing? In Alan Ellis's recent
reproduction of Tinntinnalogia[?] there is a table of times taken to ring the
various extents. The time given for a 720 is 1 hour and everything else
pro rata. This is double the times given in recent RW Diaries. Was
this whole-pull change ringing or did they really ring at half the present
speed?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=027110222-15112007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Andrew</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>