Welcome to Ringing Training

Resources for ringing training.  These may be drafts that have not been completed, but nevertheless contain useful material.

1. Sound files for Abel and Beltower - including bell number sounds

2. A Training Scheme for teaching bell handling and control  - a better way (under development)

3. Main barriers to learner progress in method ringing

4. How the best ringers ring differently from the typical novice

5. Ringing by Rhythm

6. Rough Notes prepared by Richard Johnston for CCCBR Have Your Say Day Exeter 19 July 2014

7. Draft Questionnaire for understanding bell handling and control  (7a. Example of completed questionnaire)

8. Ringer attitude survey used by North East Branch Guild of Devonshire Ringers (2015 version)

8a  Ringer attitude survey used by North East Branch Guild of Devonshire Ringers (2018 version, anonymised)

9. Effect of ringing speed on how bell music sounds

10. Examples of Bell Ringing

11. No, Peal ringers do help learners, all the time!

12. Getting into peal ringing

13. Ringing History

14. An easier way to create double muffles for ringing practice

15. Software to support hand bell and tower bell simulators, Including a) Handbell Manager for Ringingroom.com, b) Serial Port interface for Ringingroom.com, c) Android mobile phones as simulators for Ringingroom and Abel,   d) joystick interface for mobile phones for Handbell Stadium, and e) App for iPhones for Handbell Manager and Handbell Stadium, and key based programs

16. Ringing methods by their structure, with special attention to Yorkshire and Bristol on higher numbers.

(c) Richard Johnston, 2014,2015, 2020, 2024

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