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Just listen...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYDGncj9BBk

Call Changes Category added.

Hmmm, not bad I suppose

Question is then, if you are marking faults, how many did you spot?
2nd is quick at backstroke occasionally, e.g. just before the lower, but I'm splitting hairs

I was going to make a few comments but while I was thinking about it You Tube popped this up. I stopped it after very short time. The contrast was too distressing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTh9XfMFU8

Simon there is a broken link on the acknowledgements page, you need to remove the www from the link to Bryn Reinstadler's ebook.

Its really good, I would get a printed copy if you ever publish it. I did a lot of work in St Andrews with calling and ringing the "old peals on five bells" from Tintinnalogia, sometimes trying to do the entire sequence with a call every handstroke.

Thanks I'll sort

If we tried to do a print version of this, how would you deal with the links to video content? Would you still point the reader to video content so they can watch, maybe with a specific accompanying website, or would the book have to function entirely as offline content? You'll appreciate having read it now that it benefits from this video content, but there is probably still valuable content without it.

You could do a halfway house and publish it in PDF or an eBook format. That would allow it to be saved on a phone and still used when there's little/no signal. PDF would preserve the video links, for when there is a signal. And it's possible to get a PDF printed as a book quite cheaply online - one site quoted me less than £5 for a one-off print.

I've done a very rough and ready conversion of the web pages to PDF, link below. Ideally you'd take the existing content and author it directly into EBook format using something like Calibre, which is free.

Thanks John. Simon - happy to make a donation to whatever you wish in exchange for being allowed to download John's conversion. Just lmk.

Simon, your book is very timely for me as I often visit Devon from Lancashire and have found a lovely welcoming call change tower outside Exeter. "Which bell do you ring?" Was certainly an unexpected question, but it often comes. In the past few days at home I think the amswer would be all of 1 to 8 except the 4. Long ropes and ringing with coils was another unexpected hazard. My first time called to lead was a bit nerve racking (and still is), keeping up the striking and not falling back into what I'm used to. The key was listening. Suddenly that wonderful Devon sound and then try and keep the metronome absolutely steady until relieved of the responsibility. Bells called to lead aren't always told "Lead", but they are usually kind to me and call it thus as I'm used to.