Campanalogia : $b or The art of ringing improved : with plain and easie rules to guide the practitioner in the ringing all kinds of changes, to which is added, great variety of new peals.Stedman, Fabian
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Campanalogia : $b or The art of ringing improved : with plain and easie rules to guide the practitioner in the ringing all kinds of changes, to which is added, great variety of new peals.
Stedman, Fabian
Bells; Change ringing
And thus in every Cross-peal the Courses do all agree, first in the
motion of the Hunt, secondly in the motion of the rest of the notes, and
thirdly in the making of the changes, as before I have showed. So that
these three things being well observed, will be very helpful both in
pricking and ringing them; the first and third being most proper to
direct the pricking of them, and the first and second the ringing of
them. Therefore if the Practitioner do but observe how the changes are
made in the first course of a peal, wherein he must have particular
regard to the motion of the Hunt, (with a little further help from the
following directions to each peal, as to the making of _Extreams_ and
Bob-changes) he may easily prick down all the following Courses of the
same peals and therefore in the following peals I have onely prickt down
two or three of the first courses for an example, and then have abridged
the rest of the peal by setting down only the changes that are made at
the leadings of the Hunt. But note, there are some few _Cambridg_-peals
upon five bells, wherein all the courses of each peal do not agree in
the aforesaid three respects: For although as to the motion of the
_whole-hunt_ they do, yet in the motion of the rest of the notes, and
consequently in the making of the changes they do not.
It being very difficult to begin the following peals with cross _hunts_,
that is, to make the _2d_, _3d_, _4th_ _&c._ whole-hunts, I will
therefore set down a general rule for making the first changes at the
beginning of each Peal, wherein consists the great difficulty. In any
Cross-peal the _whole-hunt_ may move either up or down at the beginning;
and the motion of the _whole-hunt_ in the first course of each of the
following peals will direct the first motion of any cross _hunt_, and
consequently of making the first changes in that peal. For Example,
admit the _4th_ were made the _whole-hunt_ in the peal called _Old
doubles and singles_ upon five bells, and to _hunt_ up at first: now to
know how to make the first changes, observe how the change is made
wherein the treble (which is there the _whole-hunt_) moves up out of the
_4th_ place, and in the same manner must the change be made wherein the
_4th_ bell also moves up out of that place: therefore as the change
wherein the treble moves up out of the _4th_ place is a _single_ behind;
so likewise must the change wherein the _4th_ bell moves up out of that
place, be also a _single_ behind thus, 12354: and then as the next
change wherein the treble lieth still behind is double of the four first
bells; so likewise the next change wherein the _4th_ bell lieth still
behind, must also be made on the four first, thus, 21534, _&c._ Or admit
the _4th_ were to hunt down at the beginning, then observe how the
change is made wherein the treble hunts down out of the _4th_ place, and
so in like manner must the change be made wherein the _4th_ hunts also
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