What is a grandsire triple?
The grandsire method is usually rung on an odd number of bells: Grandsire doubles is rung on five working bells, grandsire triples on seven, grandsire caters on nine and grandsire cinques on eleven.
What is English change ringing?
change ringing, traditional English art of ringing a set of tower bells in an intricate series of changes, or mathematical permutations (different orderings in the ringing sequence), by pulling ropes attached to bell wheels.
What is a Bob in bell ringing?
To obtain more changes than available in the plain course, a conductor makes a call directing the ringers to make a slight variation in the course. (The most common calls are called bobs and singles.)
What does grandsire mean in English?
grandfather
Definition of grandsire 1 or grandsir \ ˈgran(t)-sər \, dialect : grandfather sense 1a. 2 archaic : forefather. 3 archaic : an aged man.
What does great grandsire mean?
noun. 1 archaic, historical Great-grandfather. 2The sire of the grandsire of an animal, especially a horse or dog.
What does Treble Bob mean?
Definition of treble bob : one of the chief methods of change ringing in which the treble has a uniform but zigzag course and all the bells dodge.
Are there still bell ringers?
There are about 5,000 churches with bell ringers in Britain, and almost everyone lives within hearing range of one of them. Bell-ringing enthusiasts are called campanologists, and the country has about 40,000 of them.
What is a sally in bell-ringing?
Notice that the ringer pulls first on a coloured fluffy section in the middle of the rope (called the “Sally” – probably named after the phrase “to sally forth” because once pulled the bell rushes downwards) and then on the tail end of the rope called (yes you’ve guessed it) the “tail end”.
What is the rope that rings a bell called?
bell pull. noun. a rope that you pull to make a bell ring.
What is the female version of grandsire?
Grandsire. Just as on the female side the grandfather is called a damsire, on the male side this is a grandsire.
What is Grandsire Bob?
Details of the method on five bells appeared in print in 1668 in Tintinnalogia, the first book to be published on change ringing. By this time, Roan had invented a six-bell extension he named “Grandsire Bob”, now known by ringers as “Plain Bob Minor”. The description of Grandsire predates modern method naming conventions.
When was the grandsire ring invented?
The first method, Grandsire, was designed around 1650, probably by Robert Roan who became master of the College Youths change ringing society in 1652.
How does grandsire work?
Grandsire, like Plain Bob, is based on a simple deviation to the plain hunt when the treble (bell No.1) is first in the sequence or it is said to “lead”. The treble is known as the “hunt bell” because it hunts continuously without ever deviating from the path. The diagram for the plain course is shown here.
How many Grandsire Caters have been rung?
According to the best available knowledge in 2017, 6,929 peals of Grandsire Caters (on 10 bells) were rung in the 300 years after 11 January 1711.