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The team revising the Framework for Method Ringing last year agreed with you, Stephen. Ringers have been ringing quarters and even peals on their own for practice for many years, and it is only during lockdown that people started to publish them on BellBoard as performances. A particular concern with the naming of new methods like this is that several members of a band planning a performance might ring a solo quarter of that method for practice on a simulator. In that situation it would be perverse for a practice quarter by one individual to be credited as the first performance in the method rather than the intended performance with an all human band. For this reason the revised Framework for Method Ringing contains a new clause under 5.E.1 Right to Name.

g) The Performance was rung by an all-human Band.

Consultation of this version 2 of the Framework was completed in July 2021 and it is currently waiting for the next meeting of the Central Council Executive to approve its implementation.

The methods published this week were rung on a tower bell simulator in 2020/21 as part of Sue Marsden's Minor to Major Lockdown Challenge, which could be argued as a reasonable exception. While we will continue to accept methods named this way until the new Framework comes into force, we trust that ringers will respect the view of the exercise on this point.

On the question of 6C2n) A Performance with only one ringer was witnessed by an umpire. It is deliberately not a requirement for a performance containing a new method to meet all the Performance Norms for it to be named. This is because it might prevent the first performance of an innovation in method ringing being recorded, as happened with the first performances of variable cover.

They aren't comments on the previous post though, and the thread would get increasingly long.

If you bookmark a discusssion (by clicking the star), you should then receive notifications for every comment on that discussion (assuming you have that notification option ticked). You should also receive a notification for this comment, Simon, because I have mentioned you.

You can add any method or composition on Complib to your own private collection that you initially create specifically for use with Handbell Stadium. See Making Your Own Collection here.

Shipway (1816) can be found at https://www.whitingsociety.org.uk/old-ringing-books/shipway-universal-instructor.html . It uses WMH.

It is worth contacting Tina Stoecklin, Jonathan, as she has run handbell clubs for primary school as discussed here.

We certainly hope so.