[r-t] Re: Exercise Mathods

[Hayden Charles]

According to Wilfrid Wilson's 'Change Ringing',1965, chapter 24, 
'Extracts from Decisions and Definitions adopted by the CCCBR', Exercise 
methods are Treble-bob methods 'having places made at all cross sections 
but two, three or four in the half lead'.

No mention of the Pas-alla-tria/tessera (but the chapter is only 
'extracts').

Imperial methods are plain, of course (despite a reference to 'Kent 
places' in the definition).

Wilson has:

Plain Methods. These consist of:

a) Bob methods: these have the Plain Bob place, either before or behind, 
or both, the place being made by the working bell coming in front of the 
treble. The simplest example is Double Bob. Any method in which such 
places occur is automatically a 'Bob' methos, irrespective of any other 
class to which it may also belong.

b) Imperial methods: these have contiguous places made as, for instance, 
in Kent Treble Bob.

c) Court methods: these have places made other than those in bob or 
imperial methods.

d) College methods: in these methods the normal characteristic is the 
dodging which takes place in 1-2, the bells which the treble leaves 
there dodging until it returns, e.g. St Clement's College Bob.

More recent decisions have made these distinctions obsolete.

Is it possible to get all of these characteristics into a plain major 
method? According to the Visual Method archive, the name Imperial has 
been used only for Imperial Surprise for Royal and Maximus. St Clement's 
does not come up there for maximus either. Is it unrung?

Hayden



Ben Willetts wrote on 31/01/2005 12:32:


 > RAS:
 >
 >> From memory, an Exercise method was a Treble Dodging
 >> method with exactly one cross-section without internal
 >> places.  In the same [vein], did Imperial, College and
 >> Court ever have formal definitions?
 >
 >
 >
 > According to Steve Coleman in his "Method Ringer's Companion", they 
are as
 > follows:
 >
 > "Delight used to mean a method with an internal place at all but one
 > cross-sections.  All but two was Exercise, all but three was 
Pas-alla-tria,
 > and all but four was Pas-alla-tessera."
 >
 > Court is "an obsolete classification for a plain method in which court
 > places are made. Court places used to mean a number of things, but 
for most
 > people nowadays they are a simple set of places made round the treble,
 > normally without any dodges either side."
 >
 > Imperial is "another obsolete classification for a method in which 
imperial
 > places are made" (eg Kent or Reverse Canterbury).
 >
 > College is "a method in which a pair of bells stay dodging together 
in 1-2
 > after the treble has left them - such as St Clement's".
 >
 > Ben
 >
 >
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