Treble's Going

• Don Morrison is a prolific ringer and composer who learned to ring in Boston and currently rings in Pittsburgh. He'll always have a soft spot for St. John the Baptist in Peterborough (website, Dove's listing), though, as you'll hear.
• If you'd like to read up on composing, Don recommends:
  • Leary, John. Handbook of Composition.
  • Wilson, Wilfrid. Change Ringing. [scattered snippets, in surprising amount]
  • Trollope, J. Armiger. Variation and Transposition. [possibly out of print, online at https://www.ringing.info/v-and-t.html]
  • Longridge, John. Conducting and Coursing Order.
  • Price, Brian. A "fistful of interesting papers" at ringing.info [most easily found by searching "Price" in-page]
  • Chant, Harold and Giles Thompson. Method Splicing parts I and II (Minor Methods and Major Methods, respectively).
  • Pullin, Richard. Ongoing series "Notable Composers of the Past" in Ringing World.
• For the truly curious, here is a listing for that first (rung) peal composition of Don's, conducted by Geoff Davies: number 22 in the list of peals rung at Groton School.
• Rod Pipe's series can be found in Ringing World in 1985 at pp. 636 and 1084; and in 1986 at pp. 60, 168, 232, 304, 460, 576, 642, 728, 840, 912, 1020, and 1080.
• We also manage to squeeze in some talk of Project Pickled Egg and the notion of "bumping up" Cornwall in the standard progression of treble-dodging methods one learns.
• If you'd like to see a "grab bag of things of interest to ringers to which things have been added and subtracted over the years," you're in luck: Don hosts such a resource at ringing.org!

Thank you, friends.

From Kent School in Connecticut, Treble's Going is the podcast about change-ringing in North America.
Join us for conversations about tower and handbells, about your favorite method or about conducting, about running practices and ringing online. In each episode we focus on a new topic with a different ringer.
We'd love to hear from you, too. Go ahead and tell us what you're ringing, how you're doing, what you'd like to hear, whom you'd like to hear from. Email [email protected] or head to treblesgoing.com.

The title says it all. Couldn't leave this bit on the cutting-room floor!

• Laura Goodin is a writer and a ringer and, luckily for all of us, a remote teacher of ringing.
• Laura first tried her hand at ringing at St. Andrew's, Enfield (Dove's listing, heritage listing). She now rings at the St. James Old Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia.
• Laura is also the founder of the Ringing Room Take-Hold Lounge, a public facebook group (no login necessary to view/read) where hundreds of ringers coordinate online practices, performances, and classes.
• [Note that while the Take-Hold Lounge is premised on the use of Ringing Room (UK server, NA server), interested ringers may want to look at either Handbell Stadium (motion-controller inputs, Unity engine) or Muster (Abel/Beltutor/Beltower P2P coordination) as alternatives. The three are fundamentally-different technologies, designed to serve different audiences and priorities.]
• That's right, classes! In this episode we mainly discuss a class Laura's been teaching introductory ringing, completely online. But that's not all being organized in the Take-Hold Lounge: as of release, a workshop on calls in Plain Bob Doubles has just concluded, and we hear Laura pondering a class introducing Grandsire.
• Finally, Laura tells us a bit about St. James Old Cathedral's upcoming Festival of Bells; to let her know if you incorporate any of these ideas into your next event!
• Finally, I ask you to please consider providing feedback on these first six episodes in this survey.

Thank you, friends.

• Ben White-Horne is a ringer and programmer from Cambridge (that one, not this one).
• Notably, Ben is one of the authors of Wheatley, whom you may have seen sitting quietly in the corner of one of your Ringing Room towers. We talk about the construction and operation of Wheatley, about Ben's other ringing software projects, about composition and conducting... the conversation ranges!

Thank you, friends.