[r-t] ringing-theory Digest, Vol 96, Issue 1

Rob Weatherby bobthefatman at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 3 13:05:41 UTC 2012


Thanks Guys,
Hayden, the way you described it clicked for me and I now understand that format of the notation. I worked it out.
Fingers crossed and i hopefully call it on the weekend.
Rob.

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>    1. Minor (Rob Weatherby)
>    2. Re: Minor (Basil Potts)
>    3. Re: Minor (Hayden Charles)
>    4. Re: Minor (Don Morrison)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 21:35:12 +1000
> From: Rob Weatherby <bobthefatman at hotmail.com>
> To: <ringing-theory at bellringers.net>
> Subject: [r-t] Minor
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> Hi Guys,
> Could someone please explain this in beginners terms for me. I just don't understand the format.Can you help me out by explaining this in relation to the lead ends as pbs etc....
> 
> 1,259 Plain Bob MinorDonald F Morrison (no. 2298)2345  W     H
> 3245  3*    3
> 4235  3*    -
> 3425  6     -
> 4523    In
> 3254  6 4ths 
> Round at the treble's handstroke
> lead two leads after the final bob.
> 3* = s - -
> 6 = s - - s - - 
> AND
> 1,259 Plain Bob MinorDonald F Morrison (no. 2299)2345   W   4ths  I   H
> 4235                 -
> 3245   3*            -
> 3425   -    s
> 5342           s3rds
> 4325   2             -
> 2435   3             -
> 3425   3*            -
> 5243        -
> 4235   2             4
> 3254             1   -
> 
> round at the treble's next handstroke lead
> 3* = s - -
> 4 = s - - s 
> 
> Cheers Rob. 		 	   		  
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> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 22:23:08 +1000
> From: Basil Potts <basilpotts at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [r-t] Minor
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> Hi Rob,
> 
> It's hard to know how much explanation you need. But. In the first
> touch, most of the calls are at Home (when the tenor is dodging 56 down) or
> Wrong (when the tenor is dodging 56 up). The tenor does have to run in once
> and make the bob once. The figures (I guess you would call them part ends)
> are the course ends produced by the calls. These are mostly longer than a
> plain course. For example, the first part is called WWWHHH and will be five
> courses in length = 300 changes. 3* is explained as meaning S - - (i.e.
> Single Bob Bob), 3 (without an asterisk is usually taken to mean Bob Bob
> Bob).
> 
> Please let me know if you need further clarification.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Basil Potts
> 
> PS I assume that each touch includes all 720 changes on 6 bells, plus
> another 539 repeated changes. One of these may be rounds(!)
> 
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Rob Weatherby <bobthefatman at hotmail.com>wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi Guys,
> > Could someone please explain this in beginners terms for me. I just don't
> > understand the format.Can you help me out by explaining this in relation to
> > the lead ends as pbs etc....
> >
> > 1,259 Plain Bob MinorDonald F Morrison (no. 2298)2345  W     H
> > 3245  3*    3
> > 4235  3*    -
> > 3425  6     -
> > 4523    In
> > 3254  6 4ths
> > Round at the treble's handstroke
> > lead two leads after the final bob.
> > 3* = s - -
> > 6 = s - - s - -
> > AND
> > 1,259 Plain Bob MinorDonald F Morrison (no. 2299)2345   W   4ths  I   H
> > 4235                 -
> > 3245   3*            -
> > 3425   -    s
> > 5342           s3rds
> > 4325   2             -
> > 2435   3             -
> > 3425   3*            -
> > 5243        -
> > 4235   2             4
> > 3254             1   -
> >
> > round at the treble's next handstroke lead
> > 3* = s - -
> > 4 = s - - s
> >
> > Cheers Rob.
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> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 13:47:32 +0100
> From: Hayden Charles <hcharles at grandsire.co.uk>
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> Subject: Re: [r-t] Minor
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> Rob Weatherby wrote on 02/09/2012 12:35:
> >
> > Hi Guys,
> > Could someone please explain this in beginners terms for me. I just don't understand the format.
> 
> > Can you help me out by explaining this in relation to the lead ends as pbs etc....
> 
> Have a look at (for example):
> 
>   <http://www.heatons.fsnet.co.uk/Ringing/Conducting/Session5/Theory.htm>
> 
> This explains a lot of the notation.
> 
> - is a bob, s a single.
> 
> The headings refer to the positions of the 6, so W is the first lead end 
> where the 6 dodges 5-6 up, H is the fifth lead end where it dodges 6-5 down.
> 
> 4ths means that the 6 makes the bob, In that it runs in, Out that it 
> runs out. S3rds  - make 3rds at a single.
> 
> The numbers under the W and H column mean the number of calls in the 
> same position, and the 3* points to the note underneath (s - -) meaning 
> the call is a single in the first course and a bob in the next two. 
> Similarly the 6 gives the pattern of calls at the same position, s - - s 
> - - (each of these will be one course apart).
> 
> In the first touch the lead sequence starts:
> 
> s p p p p
> b p p p p
> b p p p b
> p p p p b
> p p p p b at which point you should have the lead end 132456
> 
> That should give enough to get started. Try writing out the individual 
> lead ends to check that you get the figures given.
> 
> Hayden Charles
> 
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> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 15:57:05 -0400
> From: Don Morrison <dfm at ringing.org>
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> Subject: Re: [r-t] Minor
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> On Sunday, September 2, 2012 <x-apple-data-detectors://0>, Basil Potts
> >
> > wrote:
> > @gmail.com>
> > > I assume that each touch includes all 720 changes on 6 bells, plus
> > > another 539 repeated changes.
> >
> 
> Correct.
> 
> >One of these may be rounds(!)
> >
> 
> No, not in the sense i suspect you mean. Rounds occurs only at the
> beginning and end of the touch. While you can't (with normal calls) get a
> sub-extent length, true touch of symmetric, plain minor round at hand, the
> whole reason you can get a "true" quarter of it round at hand is that it
> gives you the opportunity to omit rounds in the interior of the calling.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Don Morrison <dfm at ringing.org>
> "After all these years I have observed that beauty, like happiness,
> is frequent. A day does not pass when we are not, for an instant,
> in paradise."
>         -- Jorge Luis Borges, _Los Conjurados_, tr Willis Barnstone
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