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
The changes are all _double_, two _singles_ excepted. One _double_ is
made on the two first and two last bells, the next on the four last, and
so by turns successively; excepting every sixth change, which is
_double_ on the four first bells, and for distinction is called a
_Parting_ change. All the bells have a like course. The general method
is this; the three first bells go the _six_ changes, and the two
hind-bells in the mean time dodg; then a _Parting_ change is made which
parts the two hind-bells, moving that in the fourth place down into the
_3d_, and that in the _3d_ place up into the _4th_, and then the three
first bells go the _six_ again, the two hind-bells in in the mean time
dodging as before; and then another _Parting_ change is made, and so
successively on. Every bell that comes behind continues there dodging
six changes with one bell and six with another, and then in course the
_Parting_ change brings it down. One _six_ cuts compass, the next doth
not, and so by turns successively. In the _six_ which cut compass the
two first bells of the three makes the first change of it, but in the
other the two last of the three. By this method the peal will go sixty
changes, and to carry it on farther _extreams_ must be made. An
_extream_ is made by the lying still of two bells when in course they
should make a change, as before I have shewed more fully in the
_Introduction_, _page 90._ but withall observing, that whereas in this
peal the bells have all a like course, therefore they may all be termed
_extream_ bells, and consequently the _extreams_ to be made according to
this general rule, _viz._ the first _extream_ may be made by any two
bells that are in course to make a change within the compass of the
first sixty changes of the peal; and the second _extream_ must be made
according to this rule. Whatsoever two bells are dodging behind at the
first _extream_, when the same two bells come to dodg there again, is a
certain warning for the second _extream_ to be then made. And observe,
how many changes the first _extream_ is made from a _parting_ change; so
many likewise must the last _extream_ be made after a _Parting_ change
also. And the _single_ and _extream_ comes in course each of them to be
made in the same place and by the same bells at the last _extream_, as
they were at the first. Here the _singles_ are made behind, and the
_extreams_ in the _2d_ and _3d_ places; and as the _4th_ and _5th_ bells
do dodg behind at the first _extream_, so likewise when they come to
dodg there again, the second _extream_ is then made, the treble leading
at both of them, as appeareth in the peal here prickt.
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