[r-t] New Grandsire [was Old methods]

[Matthew Frye]

If you can ring 4 consecutive blows then why not 6? why not 8? why not 12? why not 50? I personally don't particularly see a need for more than 4 or 6 at most, but I am guessing that you would never be happy with any limit, and similarly with jump changes, if you can move 2 places, why not 3? why not just move to any place in the change? It would be impossible on bells of any weight, but on mini-rings or handbells you could do it. Being able to ring any changes in any order? Is that the way forward?


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> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:58:40 -0400
> From: dfm at ringing.org
> To: ringing-theory at bellringers.net
> Subject: Re: [r-t] New Grandsire [was Old methods]
> 
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Simon Humphrey  wrote:
>> But where do you draw the line with introducing additional types of call?
>> Nowadays having 3 types in a peal of Maximus is commonplace, but what about
>> 4, or 5, or 20?
> 
> That, I think, comes right to the crux of this recurring discussion.
> 
> - There are those that want someone to draw such a line that
>   others are expected not to cross.
> 
> - And there are those that feel you need no line: if ringers choose to
>   ring peals with 20 different kinds of call, let them; if someone doesn't
>   want to, he or she simply declines to ring in such peals.
> 
> I am, as must be obvious, in the latter camp.
> 
> While I never have had the opportunity, probably because you need a
> whole band to ring and most folks feel otherwise, I think it would be
> fun to ring in a peal with a great multiplicity of different kinds of
> call. In much the same way that ringing spliced is good fun.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Don Morrison 
> "Ignorance is the first penalty of pride."
>       -- H G Wells, _The Outline of History_
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