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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 20
  ===''[https://complib.org/method/20055 Glasgow] – The public vote''=== ...ble Dodging Major that there is more to life than the Standard 8, breaking the shackles of 50 years or so of indoctrination.
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 14
  ...roup and a target in themselves, but they are really only a gateway to the world of Surprise Major, which offers much more to discover and enjoy. The first new method for consideration is Deva Surprise Major.
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 6
  ...cult, despite some passionate arguments for doing so. Whether Cambridge is the best method to learn first though is another matter. ...Cornwall made it into the Nottingham 8, AJB’s suggested 12, and is one of the first methods in Norman Smith’s 23 Spliced progression.
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 3
  ...or selection of methods to go in this new core group. As I said last week, the current Standard 8 seem to have been largely self-selecting, with CYSL and ...dard method. With the techniques of composition being less well developed, the existence of just a ‘single good peal’ was considered important, as wel
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• Coursing Order in Stedman Triples
  ===by Derek Butterworth (transcribed from The Ringing World 1966 page 227)=== ...hod. The following description of a “coursing order” technique should open the held of conducting Stedman Triples to many con­ductors who would normally
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 15
  ...ire is a much more interesting and exciting affair. If I were to return to the larder of ingredients analogy, while Yorkshire might be a staple of butter ...the peal ringing fraternity, but was a strong suggestion for inclusion by the initial core group developing this project.
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 8
  ...g to suggest three methods from the current Standard 8 which will not make the cut in Project Pickled Egg. ...are not ‘training methods’ to be cast aside once a stage is reached (with the possible exception of Kent as mentioned last week).
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 11
  ...Yorkshire, Superlative, Cornwall, Bristol and Lessness. Three methods from the current Standard 8 have been excluded, leaving London still for discussion. ...n and its role in learning Surprise Major have been discussed at length in the consultations preceding this. As with Cambridge, its inclusion as a core me
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• Stedman - Quick or Slow
  =Quick or Slow? The Definitive Guide by Simon Linford= ...any different ways there were of working it out. I could think of eight at the time, and seemed to be using four of them myself, and I thought “there’
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• Project Pickled Egg - Cambridge
  ...the most hotly debated of all. Here are some of the comments that indicate the opposing views and strength of feeling: ''“The pressure is building for dropping Cambridge. If you apply the selection criteria for methods, which no one disagrees with, Cambridge does
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 24
  ...ucing books and materials to support this initiative. Also, we have got to the point now where there ceases to be a clear or best path. Anyone who gets th ...elatively recent method, devised by David Hull and first rung in 2003, and the identification of such a young method supports my belief that this group of
  5 KB (902 words) - 08:24, 23 December 2018
• The Miner's Dream of Home
  ...win and [[Wikipedia:Leo Dryden|Leo Dryden]] in 1891. Leo Dryden sang it in the Music Hall and recorded it on August 27, 1898 on a Berliner cylinder E2013. ...Tradition of Christmas & the Turning of the Year. Mike Yates commented in the Veteran CD booklet:
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 10
  ...– a pickled egg. It wasn’t the best example of a pickled egg according to the local cognoscenti, but it was a pickled egg nonetheless. I can now at least ...ct Pickled Egg though – it has already stuck. Whether the pickled eggs are the methods that are in or out will have to remain a source of confusion!
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 5
  ...other staple in the current larder and a method learned first or second by the vast majority of those who set out to ring Surprise Major. Unlike with Cambridge, the jury did not spend much time deliberating on the merits of Yorkshire. In fact there was hardly a bad word said about it.
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• My Brother Sylvest
  ...minimal but quite specific: "He used to ring the bells in the belfry" and "The old church bell will ring". Have you heard about the big strong man,
  4 KB (658 words) - 16:56, 5 January 2017
• Project Pickled Egg - Part 12
  ===The Core Seven=== ...ut just making methods more difficult, and the Standard 8 hardly scratches the surface.
  6 KB (1,079 words) - 17:43, 11 November 2018
• Points from Long Length Tower Bell Peals
  ...database and some comments about this enduring yet rarefied aspect of peal ringing. == The long peal database ==
  17 KB (2,765 words) - 13:14, 31 October 2022
• Project Pickled Egg - Part 22
  ===''On the subject of difficulty...''=== ...all, Bristol is difficult if you only know Cambridge. Does difficult mean the same to everyone? How difficult is difficult enough?
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• Ringing in books
  ...ger. He turns his skill and knowledge to account to solve the mysteries of the Wilbraham Emeralds, and of a body found unexpectedly in a grave. ...w here to books which can be obtained for £10 or less. Contributors to the ringing-chat list also kindly made suggestions of books which might be of interest.
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• Income Tax and Wedding Fees
  I’m also a money person. I used to be one of the Central Council’s Independent Examiners - what most people call, Auditors - and I do a lot of work with ringing and church accounts too. Professionally I also used to be a
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