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Aug. 22nd, 2021 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
choco_froshCalled (≈conducted) a long(ish) thing while ringing this morning!*
(As you can see from above, Tropical Storm Henri decided to go to Rhode Island and then continue his habit of circling places by heading northwest before a (predicted) turn east to pass to the north of us. So we're getting rain and wind, but not really extreme levels of either, and not necessarily at the same time.)
* In ringing terminology, I called a touch of 240 of Plain Bob Minor. Ringers DO use the term "conducting," but it implies that you not only tell people what to do, but keep track of what they're doing and correct them if necessary. And this was more or less the opposite, with other people putting John B. right** and Danielle occasionally giving me significant looks, resulting in the hilarious call "Oh yeah, I guess we do a single here!"
A "single" is a "call" in bellringing, one that (normally) swaps two ringers around in terms of what order they're doing stuff in. A "touch" is a piece of method ringing that includes calls, as opposed to a "plain course", where you start a method and just ringing your way through it until you get back to rounds (= descending scale.) "Methods", again, are metapatterns of ringing/the change ringing equivalent of tunes. Plain Bob is a fairly easy method; "minor"="on six bells". 240 changes takes about 8 minutes, maybe a little less.
** He's an excellent ringer, but had gotten completely soaked on the way in, and was a bit discombobulated in consequence.
(As you can see from above, Tropical Storm Henri decided to go to Rhode Island and then continue his habit of circling places by heading northwest before a (predicted) turn east to pass to the north of us. So we're getting rain and wind, but not really extreme levels of either, and not necessarily at the same time.)
* In ringing terminology, I called a touch of 240 of Plain Bob Minor. Ringers DO use the term "conducting," but it implies that you not only tell people what to do, but keep track of what they're doing and correct them if necessary. And this was more or less the opposite, with other people putting John B. right** and Danielle occasionally giving me significant looks, resulting in the hilarious call "Oh yeah, I guess we do a single here!"
A "single" is a "call" in bellringing, one that (normally) swaps two ringers around in terms of what order they're doing stuff in. A "touch" is a piece of method ringing that includes calls, as opposed to a "plain course", where you start a method and just ringing your way through it until you get back to rounds (= descending scale.) "Methods", again, are metapatterns of ringing/the change ringing equivalent of tunes. Plain Bob is a fairly easy method; "minor"="on six bells". 240 changes takes about 8 minutes, maybe a little less.
** He's an excellent ringer, but had gotten completely soaked on the way in, and was a bit discombobulated in consequence.
