#change ringing

[incendavery]

guess what new niche hobby i picked up over the summer!

[talontheacedragon]

english change ringing is probably the only activity where you casually have a 300 year old object sat next to the pedestal fan. the 400 year old objects are the ones being swung around at ridiculous speeds.

[missedurdodge]

Hi!!!!

I've decided not enough autistic people on the internet know about bell ringing (change ringing, full circle ringing, whatever you want to call it)

This is deeply wrong to me because I have a running theory that all bell ringers are, in fact, on the spectrum (especially the good ones, nobody who can ring surprise methods is typical)

So I'm putting my intense interest in this hobby to use by rambling hysterically about it like the pathetic nerd I am.

Apologies in advance for any poor writing and factual weirdness, the alphabet is my enemy and grammar a much larger foe.

Prepare!!

[maybeasunflower]

24 bell change ringing at Ringing World 100th Anniversary Reception

The blue lines:

[asingularbee]

She treble bob on my cambridge surprise major til i come round

[honoriaeditions]

The Nine Tailors. Vade mecum on campanology by Sarah Asarnow (2017).

[momoguido]

when ur dodging with ur crush 🥰 when u miss because u kept trying to dodge with ur crush instead of hunting 😳

[residentshitcunt]

Currently my ringing development is fuelled purely by spite. I will learn Bristol fuck you.

[uchicagomagazine]

Mitchell Tower has a new set of bells! Gifted by Christian J. Haller, AM’72, and Helen D. Haller, the bells are a weighty homage to those who have shaped the history of the University and the city of Chicago. Read about change ringing at the University and the bells’ melodic connection to the past.

Illustration by Bruce Hutchinson

[mntds]

Honestly I feel like tumblr would dig change ringing if more people knew about it, given that it’s got all of tumblr’s favorite things down to a science:

-numerical patterns (autism brain loves numerical patterns)

-intricate rituals

-old people

[curiouscat9lives]

I actually recognised someone yesterday at ringing.

A stranger to us at the tower we visit when we don't have a service to ring for, but someone that everyone else obviously knew.

After the first touch I thought I recognised her - she had visited our tower on a Sunday during the summer, and I remembered that she said she had local links.

This is one of the wonderful things about the ringing community - the freedom to pop in and join in other towers' service and practice ringing. We are regular visitors at 2 towers (one close by, the other a bit further away), and in return some of the ringers there help us out when we need it.

We ring with my parents when we are visiting them - our ringing down in peal abilities are always enthusiastically commented on!

We are the ringers for 2 local towers without their own band. OH even was gifted some posh biscuits for tolling for the queens' funeral, and we find ringers for any weddings they have. It is out of our way to go there, and the bells are not the best in the world. But it feels right to help when we can.

[invisiblewashboard]

The fact that Tolkien realized he’d created inconsistency for LotR with the first published version of The Hobbit and then retconned it with the in universe explanation of “Bilbo is a liar,” is never going to stop being both equal parts brilliant and funny.

[schreibergasse]

Seen in Boston's North End @gallusrostromegalus

[missedurdodge]

Aside- Bell towers

I'm just about getting to the bit where we bring other people into the equation, but first let's talk about bell towers as a whole.

A bell tower is typically part of a church, given we're ringing church bells. We've gotta be nice to the church or they don't let us ring.

(Picture taken by me, and also my pfp! It's Mary-le-bow, in London, a very good tower to boast about ringing in)

If you're in the UK, like me, you can choose between any 6642 (according to dove, the website that has most of them listed) ringable bell towers. Roughly 1 in 7 towns or villages here have one. Almost every village nearby me has a functioning bell tower, it's great!

If you live literally anywhere else, you have 145 towers. Sorry.

A bell tower will have a ringing room, either on the ground floor, or up a set of usually very tight spiral stairs (at least in the UK).

Ringing rooms, and bell towers as a whole, come in all manner of sizes, shapes, and states of repair. But they have the bit of the rope we need in them, so that's nice.

Above that, separated often by a floor or small chamber so we don't go deaf, is the belfry. It has the bells. It's usually very dusty, and the bells are sort of crammed together like Tetris pieces.

You only really ever see the belfry if you help with maintenance or repairs, but it's worthwhile to ask to head up there at least once so you can actually see the thing you're rotating at high speeds.

Really, that's all a bell tower is. Every single one is wildly different, it makes outings to other towers exciting.

At some point, I'll talk about bells themselves, and all the different words we use to describe them (far too many) as well as the organisational system of ringers in the UK.

Have a good!

[maybeasunflower]

The 576 Palindromic Plain Doubles Methods

I love this table :-)

(This being doubles, the differentials necessarily have two groups with two bells each.)

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[asingularbee]

she cambridge on my surprise until i maximus