So what’s a themed method? These are lots of fun – with endless possibilities of thousands of methods, you’ll usually be able to find one with a suitable name for the occasion you’re ringing for. Christmas Eve Doubles for the 24th December, All Hallows Doubles for Halloween, Royal Bob Surprise for the Queen’s Birthday or even Death By Chocolate Minor for Easter … something to entertain your band and develop your ringing skills at the same time.
If you’re a Doubles ringer, check out this list of Doubles Variations – variations are usually simple methods adapted and renamed with a foreign (non standard) call, or series of calls. They are enjoyable to ring, but working out how to create true touches and put the calls in can be another challenge.
So if your Church is planning a flower festival, have a look at methods named after flowers. If it’s your Church’s patronal festival and you ring at All Saints, look up All Saints Place Doubles.
If you’re into composition and enjoy playing with numbers, how about trying to write a ‘date touch’ – a true composition which comes round after the amount of changes for the year you wish to celebrate. Or choose from some of the published date touch compositions that appear online.
Here’s the Marsworth band ringing Balthazar Doubles for the Epiphany service. They’ve rung quarter peals of Caspar and Melchior too!
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