           An Introduction to some Call Changes you can try

  You may want to print out this file for reference while running !CallChnge

Rounds
This is the name given to ringing the bells in order from the highest to the
lowest note, and is how all ringing begins and usually ends. The bell ropes
in a tower are usually arranged in a circle so that all the ringers can see
each other, but the sequence order is written in a line.

For six bells, Rounds is written out as  1 2 3 4 5 6

Queens
You can swap the order of the bells by clicking with the mouse between the
numbers in the line below the ringers, shown by the X in the text below. 
Only the inner bells on the line swap, and it does not matter whether you
swap 2 and 3 or 4 and 5 first.
Start in rounds  1 2 3 4 5 6
                    X         swap 2 and 3
      gives      1 3 2 4 5 6
                        X     swap 4 and 5
      gives      1 3 2 5 4 6
                      X       swap 2 and 5
      gives      1 3 5 2 4 6 .
This is called Queens, because it is thought that Queen Elizabeth I heard
the bells of St. Michaels, Cornhill ringing in this sequence and liked it
very much. Usually the sequence of changes will be reversed to get back to
rounds before the ringers stand their bells. So to get back to rounds from
Queens you reverse the changes: swap 5 and 2, then 5 and 4, then 3 and 2.
Queens on 8 bells is the sequence:  1 3 5 7 2 4 6 8 .
Try making this for yourself with !Callchnge, and see what is the minimum
number of changes it needs.

Tittums (ti-tum-ti-tum-ti-tum)
  on 6 is  1 4 2 5 3 6
  on 8 is  1 5 2 6 3 7 4 8
  on 12 is 1 7 2 8 3 9 4 0 5 E 6 T  (0 means bell 10, E bell eleven, T twelve)

These are the more popular named changes, others are: 
Back rounds, Whittingtons, Roller Coaster, and Weasels.
Their sequences are are given below for various numbers of bells.

Back Rounds (or nearly)
The tenor (the heaviest bell with the lowest note) may be at either end of
the sequence; the ends are called front (the 1st one to ring) or back,
the last one to ring. Thus:
 on 6  6 5 4 3 2 1  or 5 4 3 2 1 6
 on 8  8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  or 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 8 .
Tradition has it that in time of war bells rung in this fashion were a
signal that the country had been invaded.

Whittingtons
This is the sequence which Dick Whittington (and his cat) is said to have
heard on his way out of London where he had gone to seek his fortune and
finding it more difficult than he had expected was on his way home; when
resting on Highgate Hill he heard the 12 bells of St Mary-le-Bow, ringing:
   5 3 1 2 4 6 E 9 7 8 0 T   ( 0=bell 10  E=eleven T=twelve)
which he thought were saying to him:
  Turn A- gain Whit-ting-ton Thrice Lord Mayor of Lon-don
    5  3   1    2    4    6    11     9   7    8   10 12
on 6 it is 5 3 1 2 4 6   and on 8  1 2 7 5 3 4 6 8 .
on 10 there are 2 possibilities:
     3 1 2 4 9 7 5 6 8 0    or  1 2 9 7 5 3 4 6 8 0 .

Roller Coaster 
Some say only works well on 10:    3 2 1 6 5 4 9 8 7 0 .
Others say they like it on 8:
   as 3 2 1 7 6 5 4 8  or  4 3 2 1 7 6 5 8 or  3 1 2 4 7 5 6 8

Weasels only exists on 5 and is the only change that has to be struck badly
to sound right; it is 1 4 2 3 5, but for best effect should be rung 1-4-23-5
so it may not sound right in !Callchnge where you cannot alter the timing at
which one bell sounds relative to the next.
The name comes from the last line of the nursery rhyme:
    Pop Goes the Wea- sel
     1    4   2   3    5 .

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                         Further information

You can read more about change ringing and the origins of these names in
Steve Colemans useful book:
 The Bellringers Bedside Companion published in 1994;
 ISBN 0 9523896 0 6.

Michael Williams list of Call Changes has more interesting sequences to
ring:
        http://www.campanile.co.uk/maw/callchanges.html

The  Central Council of church bell ringers web site has more information on
all aspects of ringing:
        http://www.cccbr.org.uk/
