Ringing Sandiacre Surprise Minor.
Track the treble
Awareness of the position of the treble is a key skill for most bellringing methods,
and a significant help in ringing Sandiacre Surprise Minor.
Some hints and tips for developing the skill are given in the
techniques
section.
Positional Awareness
Place Notation Elements
Sandiacre only contains elements 34X36, 12, 14, 36, 34, all of which will already have been rung.
Place Bells, Pivot Leads, and Staging posts
The double place bell sequence are as St Clement's College Bob / London Surprise, but the value of this is obscured by the backward hunting across the Lead End.
Awareness of other bells
The static nature of "Bourne below" makes Sandiacre one of the easier Carlisle group methods, possibly even a stepping stone into the group.
Coursing Order in Sandiacre Surprise Minor
Sandiacre preserves the natural coursing order at the lead end which is valuable to the conductor for checking the bells working correctly at the calls.
The work below the treble is brilliant.
2nds place bell is joined by its after bell (4ths place bell) for the long frontwork, but beware that the dodging is counter-intuitive (2nds place bell dodges down).
So the pivot bell makes 3rds whilst the coursing pair dodge in 1-2, and the parted pair cross over in 4-5 at the half lead.
Therefore the treble dodges 5-6 up with the bell before the pivot bell, and 5-6 down with the bell after the pivot bell.
The crankshaft has two places where the place notation is X34X (5-6 sections), the bells making the places with the pivot bell are its afterbell and its forebell in the coursing order.
Overall
There is no substitute for just ringing a lot.
Maybe 1,000 courses is just the start.
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