#change ringing

[incendavery]

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

[avidenjoyerofhamsters]

First attempt at a St Nicholas Bob scarf!!

I'm quite pleased with how it turned out, but some areas could be improved:

- width is too thin to cover face if worn

- mistake with the cables at the first 1-2 dodge

- the cables are too tight imo, so that it looks like a twist rather than a doge

[anotherbrickinthegay]

just did my first quarter peal, but I don’t have any friends my age who would even knows what that means, so I’m just sitting in my flat trying to feel a sense of accomplishment until I see the septuagenarians who will be proud of me on Friday

[maybeasunflower]

24 bell change ringing at Ringing World 100th Anniversary Reception

The blue lines:

[campanillogical]

Continuing to follow in the lead of other great ringers, by getting hammered the night before the quarter peal and turning up hung over to turn a 20-something cwt bell to Bristol

[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!!

[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.

[asingularbee]

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

[schreibergasse]

Seen in Boston's North End @gallusrostromegalus

[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

[avidenjoyerofhamsters]

I trebled to plain bob and a touch of grandsire today!! Major leap forward in ringing ability

[anotherbrickinthegay]

Ringing progress update

I’ve just done my first quarter peal on the treble! We did 1260 of bob minor, it got a bit rocky in a few places — some of it my fault, some not — but we got it. My most recurring mistake is that I wouldn’t go far enough for the second blow in 6th and then dive a bit too quickly out of back into 5th, but it got better as it went along. Thankfully, I had a really advanced team around me and was put right before it could crash.

It went a LOT quicker than my first quarter when I was just covering since I had to actually think (or in any case, count to six and back).

No injuries either. I was a bit worried bc I had a blister that *just* healed on one hand and a fairly new callus on the other, but there was no blood and no pain so I’ll call that a win

The next goal is a quarter on the inside, and I believe I’ll get to attempt one of Bob doubles for Easter so fingers crossed

[maybeasunflower]

The 576 Palindromic Plain Doubles Methods

I love this table :-)

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

(Source)

[campanillogical]

Me when I've gotta actually ring the peal that I signed up for -> pissing and shitting and crying.

Four hours of Bristol, what could possibly go wrong?