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The Clapper Archives are rich in articles about how to improve one's ringing, conducting, teaching, and composing. Now that the complete Archives are available to members on-line at this site, these articles are more readily available than before. Here is a list, organized roughly by topic:
Ringing Methods:
Plain Doubles & Minor
Doubles Ringing -- April 1986
Plain Bob Minor - January 1983
Little Grandsire - October 1983
A Stedman Primer - Winter 1990
A Useful Next Step for Doubles Bands - Spring 2003
Plain Triples & Major
Stedman Triples Without Too Many Tears - October 1978
Stedman Triples Without Too Many Tears (2) - June 1979
Carter's Triples - January 1981
Little Grandsire Triples - April 1983
Higher Numbers:
Little Grandsire Caters - July 1983, January 1984
Go Grandsire Caters - October 1984
Surprise
Starting Surprise - July 1982
Middleton's Cambridge -- October 1986
Martin on Cambridge - February 1987
Learning Surprise Methods: Cambridge - Spring 1991
Learning Surprise Methods - Spring 1992
General Concerns
Toward Better Striking - April 1989
Listening to Ringing - Summer 2001
How to Make Friends with and Influence the Bell - Winter 1994
Dear Diary: A Guild to the Ringer's Diary - Spring 2004
Teaching:
Teaching Change Ringing to the Masses - April 1985
Ringing on Bodies - May 1987
Ringing on Bodies -- Winter 1997
Letters to the Editor: Catching the Sally with the Tail around the Back - Fall 2003
Conducting:
On Conducting - October 1982
On Conducting, Part Two - July 1983
On Conducting: Plain Courses of Plain Bob - October 1983
Plain Bob's Almanac: Repairing Bob Doubles - Summer 1999
Calling Plain Bob by the Clock - Summer 1996
Conducting Grandsire Doubles - Summer 1995
A Treat of Major for the New Conductor - Summer 1989
Conductors' Corner: An Alternative Approach to Calling Stedman Triples - Summer 2003
Conductor's Corner: A Quarter Peal of Grandsire Triples - Fall 2003
Composing:
Doubles Ringing Continued with Compositions and Table of Names - July 1986
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Composing PB Major - April 1985
Rutland: An Exercise in Surprise Major Composition - Spring 1990
Popular Peal Compositions: Stedman Caters - Spring 1988
Date Quarters and Round Blocks - July 1984
Note: Any member interested in supplementing this list by adding the name of the author to each article, or finding errors or omissions in this list, please contact the Website Interface Manager. For more information about Ringing Training per se, please contact the Education Officer.
Citations for thirty-five years worth of articles about ringing training, composing, and conducting organized by topic.
