We had a lovely ring this morning with guest ringer, Mark Place, handling 2 bells at once! We were able to ring call changes on 6 with Helen now managing her bell very reliably. Go Helen! … Marguerite
For more on “double handed” ringing, check out the link below.
https://cccbr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/200007.pdf
For more on the mathmatics of bell ringing, check out the link below.
For more on the math of change ringing, see below.
https://plus.maths.org/content/ringing-changes
https://funwithbells.com/markregan/
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Thank you everyone for so graciously hosting the visiting ringers this weekend. Everyone had a lot of fun and enjoyed being able to meet new ringers and be part of helping to develop Miami ringing. Thank you particularly to Marguerite and Judy for your help organizing, accommodating, and manning the air conditioning!! Couldn’t have done it without you!!! Below are links to the 3 quarter peals and 1 peal we scored!
2/9/19
1263 Stedman Triples (46 minutes)
5184 Cambridge Surprise Major (3 hours, 3 minutes)
2/10/19
1263 Stedman Triples (46 minutes)
1280 Spliced Surprise Major
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We had six guest ringers on Sunday for service touch, and I believe they rang a method called “Surprise” with Stuart, Kemp and his mom joining in. The visitors were part of a group of ringers on a road trip across the USA to “grab” towers. Since Miami is a bit far from the other towers these guests flew in for their visit and it was a pleasure to ring with them.
For Tuesday practice, we gave ringing “boxes” a go, to hone our skills. It was fun. Paloma is coming along nicely, can feel the stay bounce, and completed her first complete solo pull and set the bell – to a round of applause.
Note from Pamela:
These are Devon call-change ringers. They ring up, don’t stand their bells but launch straight into called changes. They ring slightly under the balance, hence faster than method ringers (us), and don’t pause at hand stroke between changes; this is known as cartwheeling. They don’t stand their bells before they ring down either. You will hear him say “lower” when they get back into rounds, then “stand.”
Note from Miami Band:
We are blessed to have been by-passed by hurricane Dorian and our hearts go out to our close neighbors in the Bahamas.
Back to school, back to bells! We are pleased to announce that Paloma is making great strides with the help of our Captain Stuart and the cheerful encouragement of all of the ladies in the band. This summer Paloma took sailing lessons at Narragansett Beach in Rhode Island. She grinned when she commented on how sailing was “kinda like bells in a way” because she had to learn rope handling and knots.
Dear Pamela is back in South Florida for a bit and we greatly appreciate her making the trip to join us for a few weeks – always a delight, and Helen was able to attend practice last night and she stepped right back into call changes without hesitation. Nice.
Paloma is “almost 9” and had her first opportunity to give-it-a-go on Easter Sunday. We are thrilled to have Stuart’s expertise, patience and dedication to teaching at the Trinity Bell Tower and for advancing the band. We are also grateful to Kemp each time he is able to join the tower band with his ringing skills and his hand bells for even more fun and practice after service. We honor those who teach and look forward to more willing recruits to learn the ancient art of bell ringing.
