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<DIV dir=ltr align=left> <SPAN class=302494015-21062010><FONT face=Arial
size=2>What an interesting question, as it is not practiced in parts of the west
country and Yorkshire, although now dying out in Yorkshire, I wonder if it had
more to do with changing fashion?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=302494015-21062010><FONT face=Arial
size=2>With the Yorkshire closed hand stroke ringing once in to changes its
impossible (for me) to have a clue what's being rung.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=302494015-21062010><FONT face=Arial size=2>I
like it just as much as open lead ringing, its just
different.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=302494015-21062010><FONT face=Arial
size=2>The inelegant sounding tenors wrong at back problem is non existent,
so its not without advantages.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P>Does anyone know when ringing with an open hand stroke lead first
developed<BR>and why?<BR><BR>It is clearly described in the Clavis Campanalogia
of 1788, but I can't<BR><SPAN class=302494015-21062010><FONT face=Arial
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