<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 15/3/09, Chris Pickford <i><c.j.pickford.t21@k3FIdxGVZ3nhZ_1f1xt5Jfp5v686tqWQmveXmZNQmOLRF0rDwX1gMJg_yyjspPZuuXEHQYoQVbpxHr_PP8kU24zHdUQLVEc3Jw.yahoo.invalid></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Chris Pickford <c.j.pickford.t21@k3FIdxGVZ3nhZ_1f1xt5Jfp5v686tqWQmveXmZNQmOLRF0rDwX1gMJg_yyjspPZuuXEHQYoQVbpxHr_PP8kU24zHdUQLVEc3Jw.yahoo.invalid><br>Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Early handbell ringing<br>To: bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<br>Date: Sunday, 15 March, 2009, 5:53 PM<br><br><div id="yiv718060208">
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I don't know enough about the difference
between lapping and handbell ringingto comment with any authority - but the
Abingdon peal was rung by five men only (surely implying two bells each).
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<div>I have seen lapping done and it was done with two handbells. I believe the usual way of telling whether handbell performances were lapped or not was by the time taken. In the case of the Abingdon performance, it is slow by modern standards for handbell peals but is it conclusively slow?<br><br>JBP<br></div>
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