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The teaching process. Explain – demonstrate – ring. Hand ring exercise (bell down) Hand positions. Developing the back stroke (bell down) Points to watch and giving feedback. Setting a bell and pulling it off. Developing handstroke – shadow your hands. Pulling off the sally (bell down)
Aug 16, 2020 · Learn how to ring the handstroke (sally) with a straight rope and a balanced backstroke. Follow the DOs and DON'Ts, practice the drills and avoid common handling faults.
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- Some practical points:
- 8 3-4 to Bob Minor
This booklet is aimed at the complete beginner to hand-bell ringing. It gives hints on how to learn the ‘lines’ as well as some general advice about how to ring together as a team. It then covers in some detail each of the pairs for Plain Hunt on 6, Bob Minor and Bob Major. If you get this far you have passed the major hurdle of learning to ring ha...
Always ring clockwise i.e. the lighter bell in your right hand. Unlike tune ringing, for change ringing you need to have a different stroke for hand-stroke and for backstroke. Hand-stroke is rung by flicking the bell upwards against the thumb. Backstroke is the reverse – flicking downwards on to the middle of your first finger. It should be a wri...
The easiest way of ringing this is by the treble, i.e. plain hunt until the treble leads and then either dodge or make seconds as appropriate. However you will probably find this difficult at first, and obviously you must not rely on this method in case the treble gets lost itself! To have to learn the whole course parrot-fashion might seem rathe...
Catching higher will speed the bell by stopping it from swinging as far as it would otherwise go, but without a corresponding extra pull it will not swing as far at the next stroke, so rather than being quicker for a single stroke and then ringing at the normal speed it will continue to ring faster.
Handstroke. (see the red section of rope) With your tutor assisting, pull on the sally and lift the bell from its “set” position so that it is lightly balanced. Now pull down on the sally and remember to let go when your hands reach waist level.
The sixth bell, like as if it were rounds, must ring with a pause of the hands (not a gap in the ringing) at handstroke. If the covering bell ringer is trying to ring evenly, then the tenor will strike too far away ‘at back’ and too close ‘at hand’.
When you make the bell sound combining the handstroke and backstroke with the bell up. What about the bell? A bell can be up or down and you can stand it, chime it and hold it on the balance. It’s important to appreciate when a bell is up or down as it has some very important safety implications if you get it wrong. Don’t ever assume.
