[Bell Historians] Open handstrokes

[Bickerton, Roderic (SELEX GALILEO, UK)]

 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?
With the Yorkshire closed hand stroke ringing once in to changes its
impossible (for me) to have a clue what's being rung.
I like it just as much as open lead ringing, its just different.
The inelegant sounding tenors wrong at back problem is non existent, so
its not without advantages.

 
  

Does anyone know when ringing with an open hand stroke lead first
developed
and why?

It is clearly described in the Clavis Campanalogia of 1788, but I can't
 ...... 

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