Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: A Short Treatise on Change Ringing Message-ID: <2367@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 12:27:27 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2367 Posted: Wed Jan 9 12:27:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 06:41:23 EST References: <2102@umcp-cs.UUCP> <2971@ucla-cs.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 15 In article <2971@ucla-cs.ARPA> das@ucla-cs.UUCP (David Smallberg) writes: >Uh, a full peal of twelve bells would take years, not hours. 12! is big. >I thought the most ever done was 8 bells, which takes about half a day. >I ran across an old book on campanology (sp?) a few years ago which showed a >number of the most used patterns for four through eight bells -- it's been a >while, but I think the names of the patterns were things like "triple >Grandshire" and such. They almost never ring all twelve bells; I know they've rung quarter peals with the full set. I believe that most of their "full peals" are rung on either 8 or 10 bells. Most patterns can be extended to any even number of bells. Charley Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe