[Bell Historians] Open handstrokes

[Peter Whisker]

No, I appear to be talking nonsense :-)

On 22/06/2010 08:34, Peter Whisker wrote:
> I thought that Stedman described it in Tintinnalogia in 1668?
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> Peter
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> On 21/06/2010 16:35, John Harrison wrote:
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>> 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
>> find any mention in Campanologia Improved of 1733.
>>
>> I thought the answer might be in the History of Change Ringing, but there
>> is no mention of it in the indexes, so I suspect not.
>>
>> My guess is that the mechanics biased things in that direction, and that
>> some sort of innate musical sense helped to formalise it into the
>> convention we have now of using a single beat, rather
>> than trying to suppress it.
>>
>> I am sure there are people on this list who can give better answers to both
>> questions.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
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