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• Skill distribution curve (the zones)
  ...zone and most of all black zone ringing comes up regularly on the various ringing forums. ...[http://www.ringingworld.co.uk| Ringing World] in 2002/3 entitled "Room at the Top?".
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• Links
  *[http://www.ringing.info/ Change Ringing Resources] *[http://www.bellringers.org/ Ringing Email Lists]
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• Ringing Hoaxes
  ...ars. Not spotted until April 2003, when J Ketteringham raised doubts about the letter's authenticity. .../><br /> However, two bell inscriptions have been published in the Ringing World requesting translation - ITI SAPIS POTAND ATI NONE and EDI TORIS ACRET IN
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• Roundup
  ...''. The column was a roundup of items from bellringers' mailing lists and the final edition was sent out on Fri Oct 30 2009.
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• Conductor
  ...ircle. The ringing is controlled by voice commands and unlike an orchestra the conductor does not mark time. The conductor's responsibilities are to:-
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• From the E-lists
  ...th occasional holiday absences) from November 2002 until Fri Oct 30 2009. The column was a roundup of items from bellringers' mailing lists. An archive
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• Campanophile
  Campanophile¹ '''''n''''' - The name of a once-popular ringing performance records website. www.campanophile.co.uk - now closed. Replaced Campanophile² '''''v''''' - To research someones previous ringing, using Campanophile.
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• Ringing Roadshow 2005 Handbells
  == Change Ringing on Handbells Becomes a Spectator Sport at the Roadshow == ...d in quiet seclusion for the benefit of the participants alone. The 2005 [[Ringing Roadshow]] was somewhat different! Four exhibition touches and a handbell p
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 1
  ...e point where most ringers of Surprise Major have the basic ingredients of the Standard 8 in their larder. They are our staples, but unfortunately, they d ...new generation of young ringers coming through events such as the Ringing World National Youth Contest means there is a chance now to teach a whole new gen
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• Project Pickled Egg
  ...Simon Linford and is explored through a series of articles in the Ringing World that are repeated here. * [[Project Pickled Egg - Part 2]] - Where did the Standard 8 come from?
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• Clementine
  Words written by Roy Threadgold in the 1970s. Tune and chorus from ''O My Darling Clementine''. by the duck pond deep and blue
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 7
  ...before opening the lid of the dustbin here is a method which I think makes the cut. ...wasn’t a bad word said about Superlative and it scores pretty well against the criteria set for larder selection.
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• Old Societies
  ...eved to be the list of the oldest ringing societies still functioning as a ringing society. ...ximately 400 years any organisation will have had its high and low points. The dates shown are for generally accepted original formation.
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 16
  ...an ability to see where the treble is. Bristol becomes much more formulaic the more bells you ring it on, and very popular methods like Phobos and Zanussi ...with a wrong place plain hunting frontwork could at least start to bridge the gap.
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 2
  == Where did the Standard 8 come from? == ...m at all. It may have been the publication of all-the-work compositions in the ‘60s and ‘70s by Noel (Jim) Diserens (1969) and PGK Davies (1975) in th
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• New Decisions
  ...on Methods and Peals. There has been some discussion in August 2008 on the Ringing Theory mailing list. These changes would be quite far-reaching - Graham Joh ...ons above are rung, it is the duty of the Methods Committee to ensure that the details are recorded, and these Decisions altered where necessary to provid
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• Calls that pass to another part of the same course
  ==Relevant Clauses in the Decisions== ...without altering the length of a lead. It is not part of the definition of the method.
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• Ringers Diary Surprise Major Methods
  ...show whether they are in the Standard 8 (STD8), Norman Smith's 23 (NS23), the Nottingham 8 (NOT8), MBD's Renaissance 10 (R10) or Project Pickled Egg (PPE
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 21
  ...n element, but perhaps the name is a reference from an alternate fictional world. ...Phobos, after the second of the two fishtails bells just treble bob until the treble gets back to 5-6.
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• Famous bellringers
  The following are people that members of the general public might have heard of who are known to have rung: ...e-4496720/Ed-Balls-gives-answers-probing-questions.html Daily Mail - ‘Bell ringing is fascinating. I did it for years in my teens': Ed Balls gives his definit
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 20
  ===''[https://complib.org/method/20055 Glasgow] &ndash; 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
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• 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,
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 12
  ===The Core Seven=== ...ut just making methods more difficult, and the Standard 8 hardly scratches the surface.
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• Points from Long Length Tower Bell Peals
  ...database and some comments about this enduring yet rarefied aspect of peal ringing. == The long peal database ==
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• 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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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 17
  ...ill not necessarily be used for everyday cooking, but are there to satisfy the occasional need for an indulgence. ...ng’s best kept secrets. It had multiple recommendations for inclusion from the initial consultees, summarised as follows:
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 18
  ...e. They are two methods that are often considered to be the next two after the ‘Standard 8’. I am of course talking about Glasgow and Belfast. ...ed that have both in rather than one, they are very different animals. For the purpose of Project Pickled Egg they need to be considered separately as the
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 23
  ...iscussing Belfast, which along with Glasgow generated more debate than all the other methods put together. Glasgow and Belfast are often uttered in the same breath when discussing methods which are very difficult but commonly r
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 19
  In Part 18, I left Glasgow hanging in the air, unable to come to a conclusion without doing some more market research ...emented themselves as the only two regularly rung difficult methods beyond the ‘Standard 8’.
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• Conducting Stedman
  ...'s bell unaffected and normally use only bobs or pairs of bobs, making the ringing less likely to go wrong.<br /> ...ther ringers to go wrong, where it then falls squarely on the shoulders of the conductor to keep it right!
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 13
  The first seven PPE methods, the 'Core Seven', may well be practiced first as whole courses, but then ringer ...s that work. This skill seems to be locked in the box that only members of the conducting ‘Magic Circle’ know how to open.
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 9
  ...next to go in is neither radical nor surprising though – Bristol Major is the method equivalent of sugar. ...istol. The list of plus points could have gone on forever so we left it at the following:
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• The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571
  '''The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571''' is a poem written by [[Wikipedia:Jean Ingelo ...dyke in 1810, when a Mr Birkett's servant girl lost her life while milking the cows.<ref name="Minor Victorian Poets and Authors">[http://gerald-massey.or
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• Notable Achievements
  This section lists some of the notable achievements in the world of ringing. ...ements are very welcome if you know the details, and if you have photos of the individuals or bands, even better.
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• Compositions of the Decade 2000-2009 - 7 - Royal
  ...has occurred across the board, with a shift to better established methods, the appearance of some cracking and daring new methods, and a trend towards sma These trends have been further extrapolated with the widespread development of both cyclic compositions, along with some great n
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• Compositions of the Decade 2000-2009 - 4 - Triples
  ...Erin triples, summarizing progress to date. It can be seen at http://www.ringing.info/stedman.pdf. ...l progress in a few familiar and simple methods, this has been expanded in the past decade, leading to developments across an interesting range of methods
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• Das Lied von der Glocke
  ...the most famous poems of German literature and with 430 lines also one of the longest. In it, Schiller combines a knowledgeable technical description of | '''Song of the Bell'''
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