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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>If a 'touch' is less than a peal, then the term
'quarter peal' will have to be changed.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Re: Definition
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<P>Thanks Eddie. Interestingly you quote from the OED:<BR><BR>> "9.
Bell-ringing. Any series of changes less than a peal.<BR><BR>but the
reference...<BR><BR>> 1872 ELLACOMBE Ch. Bells Devon, etc. ix. 471 A
peal..means<BR>> the performance of the full number of changes which may
be<BR>> rung on a given number of bells;<BR><BR>uses the definition of peal
which is now our definition of extent.<BR><BR>> any less number of changes
would be called `a touch'.<BR><BR>So, is a touch less than an extent? or less
than a current day peal?<BR><BR>> 1898 G. S. TYACK Bk. about Bells viii.
141 Five thousand<BR>> changes..is the smallest number to which the name of
a<BR>> peal is technically allowed, less than that number merely<BR>>
constitutes a `touch'."<BR><BR>This reference might suggest the latter, but
would it apply to a 1260 of Minor, given that it is more than an
extent?<BR><BR>> Clavis Campanalogia (1788) , p.56 where, advising how to
call<BR>> a peal: "but in order to lead the young practitioner on<BR>>
progressively, we advise him to ring the following 168<BR>> . . . He may
then venture on other short peals or touches<BR>> (as they are called)."
<BR><BR>Why did they chose the word "touch"? Does the OED have a definition of
touch that would make sense in this context e.g. like a "dash" of salt,
meaning a little, or something indicating less than the whole?<BR><BR>In
originally asking the question, I was wondering whether a touch could
reasonably be defined as something like: "A distinct piece of practice or
performance change ringing of any length, starting and ending in rounds.",
such that a quarterpeal or peal is just a touch over a certain
length.<BR><BR>Graham<BR><BR></P></DIV><!-- end group email --></BODY></HTML>