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It has always struck me as rather odd that we largely keep our plans for peals and quarter peals to ourselves and sneak quietly into the ringing room.
And then go and make a lot of noise for 3 hours or so!
A bit of advanced notice locally would seem logical, a) to alert the locals to the duration (more information usually leads to less complaints), b) that some might listen to the quality of the ringing and c) to advertise the strength of the local band in the community - and thus act as subliminal recruitment.
As Simon Ridley's original post states, a well struck piece of ringing, of whatever length is a significant musical performance, worthy of a listening to, whether for 5 minutes or 3 hours.