Conway Delight Minor

About Conway Delight Minor

Conway is a member of the group of methods having pure Kent Treble Bob above the treble.

Below the treble, 3rds place is made at the 4-5 cross-sections and at the half lead. The asymmetrical work in the 5-6 section creates pointy work in 3-4.

Conway Delight Minor is one of a group of 3 Treble Dodging Delight methods all having identical work below the treble.

• Caernarvon Delight Minor
• Conway Delight Minor (Ibid)
• Bucknall Delight Minor

At of September 2025 Bellboard had just 3 performances that included Conway Delight Minor.

Method Structure.

Place Notation:
34X34. 16 X 12 X 36 .12X14. 36, 16, Bob 14, Single 1456.

Grid:

Diagram: Conway Delight Minor, plain lead, change-rows and grid.

Goals and learning approach

What you are trying to achieve needs to drive your approach.

Ringing by structure

Get going:.
Use whatever learning approach you like most to acquire enough knowledge to ring a plain course. Ring a few and see what aspects of the method spring out, and study these. Practice until courses and simple touches are ringable.

But this is a valuable method for developing the ability to associate structure with the treble's position, whilst also developing the skill of continuously following the coursing order. Also, this gives excellent practice at leading wrong.

Performance Level

If you are wishing to achieve 720s, Quarters, or peals:
start with the "get going" as above, add in the bits that are natural to you.
Study the Double Place Bell sequences, and the lines.
Practice a lot.
Achieve some performances .

Method Mastery Level

It is unusual for a band to wish to achieve mastery in a method like Conway.

Learning Conway Delight Minor.

The Rules

Conway Delight Minor - the rules:
This method is not suitable for ringing by rules.

Conway Delight Minor - alternative rules:
Ring Caernarvon Delight Minor with a 6ths place (pure Kent) Lead End.

The Structure

Familiarity with the grid is very valuable owing to the separation between the pair in 1-2 versus the other 4 bells. The pointywork in 1-2 aligns with treble in 4ths, the pointy work in 3-4 aligns with the treble in 6ths.

Double Blue Lines

The Double Blue Lines give a useful overview of the method, adding context which is helpful for overcoming trips.

Conway Delight Minor, 1-2

Diagram: Conway Delight Minor, 1-2.

Conway Delight Minor, 3-4

Diagram: Conway Delight Minor, 3-4.

Conway Delight Minor, 5-6

Diagram: Conway Delight Minor, 5-6.

Artefacts

The Blue Line features worth noting are:
Kent above.
Pivot bell passes treble 3-2 as per London S.

Place Notation and Grid

The choice here is personal preference. The author’s preference is the visual nature of the grid.

Section by Section

(To follow once more practise has been achieved).

Ringing Conway Delight 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 Conway Delight Minor. Some hints and tips for developing the skill are given in the techniques section.

Positional Awareness

Apart from leading wrong in the 5-6 section, the method is well behaved.

Conway has a layer of difficulty in 1-2 owing to the backward leading; dealing with this:

• Study and memorise the double blue lines.
• Avoid the towerbell blue line diehard "stedman whole turns", instead recognise the point as first the transition out of right place into backward leading and then the transition back out of backward leading into right place working.
• The first point is preceded by a standard X12X (treble in 3-4 up)
• The second point is immediately followed by a standard X12X (treble in 3-4 down)
• "Points" are rung in 1-2 when treble is starting and then finishing the 4-5 Cross Section

Place Notation Elements

The method has 34X34, X, 36, 12, 12X14, 16.

Place Bells, Pivot Leads, and Handrails

156342 LE 16: Double Court Bob; Sandal Treble Bob, Hull Surprise

1-2:1-2, 1-6, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-2
3-4:3-4, 4-5, 5-2, 2-6, 6-3, 3-4
5-6:6-5, 3-2, 4-6, 5-3, 2-4, 6-5

Pivot Leads

Pivot bell, is 4ths Place Bell.
For 3-4 pair, the pivot point is when the pair cross over in 1-2 at the Half Lead.
For 5-6 pair, the pivot point is when the pair cross over in 4-5 at the Half Lead.

Handrails

There are no handrails.

Awareness of other bells

Just ring the method, apart from the leading this method is well behaved.

Coursing Order in Conway Delight Minor

• Natural Coursing Order is well preserved throughout (NB Kent above).
• Below the treble, the frontwork bells arrive and depart in Natural coursing order apart from the half lead where the coursing order is split by the pivot bell.
• 4ths place bell pivot gives the abc effect on the three bells starting with a as 2nds place bell. b is pivot bell, a and c cross in 1-2 under the pivot bell making 3rds at the half lead, and c goes on to eventually dodge with the treble in 1-2. c then hands over to d as the next 2nds place bell.
• d and e are a coursing pair and dodge together in 5-6 in both 3-4 sections, and cross in 4-5 at the Half Lead.

Ringing the Method

The pointy work makes it look hard.

Bobs and Singles.

As per Kent TB.

Touches of Conway Delight Minor.

6ths place lead end 156342 is unusual, with 6th observation, the calling positions are In, 4ths, Home, Out, Wrong.