The various methods for making the changes or varying the positions are described, and are worked out in the Books by Messrs. Troyte, Hubbard, Banister, and others.
With such writings on these, more intricate and advanced methods, so well compiled, so much appreciated, and so easily obtained, giving all the technical words, and names, in the change ringing art, showing so plainly the rules for bringing round the peal to its starting position, through the many variations and changes, it is needless in such a production as this to say more than to refer the student at once to those Works, and to wish him every success. Desiring only to lead such onward, to the further study and practice of this healthy and fascinating art, with many apologies for humble efforts, and, doubtless, many mistakes, at the same time craving the forbearance of the masters of the art, the Writer desires to stand and to subscribe himself as
The Students’ Well Wisher.
“Ring out, ye bells, and waft the sound
Till heathen lands your notes rebound;
Till every soul o’er all the earth
Shall sing the great Redeemer’s birth.”
The thanks of the Writer are tendered to T. North, Esq., for permission to use extracts from his “Bells of Leicestershire;” to Messrs. Warner & Sons for the use of their several woodcuts; to the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe and Mr. H. W. Haley for several hints of interest which are embodied by permission in the foregoing pages.
BOOKS PUBLISHED ON
BELLS AND BELL RINGING,
WHICH CAN BE OBTAINED OF
J. WARNER & SONS, LONDON.