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a touch of Kent Treble Bob

Oh dear! I have been dis­covered! My ringing teach­er said to me at Monday’s prac­tice, ‘I was look­ing at your web­site…’. I shall have to be care­ful what I write!

His revenge was to tell me to learn a touch of Kent Treble Bob, the ‘blue line’ of which I learnt a few months ago, and I have had one attempt at ringing a plain course.

When ‘Bob’ is called, the treble is, of course, unaf­fected, and so are the two bells which are going into, or com­ing out of, the slow.

The bells which are dodging in 5–6 and above make two extra dodges — three dodges in all, rather than one.

One bell makes the bob: the bell which is mak­ing 3rds and 4ths places up the second time. It makes 3rds and 4ths up, and then imme­di­ately rings 4ths and 3rds down, and goes straight down to the lead. It has become the bell mak­ing 3rds and 4ths down the first time, so it will make 3rds and 4ths down again next time, and then go back into the slow.

The bells which triple dodge at the back con­tin­ue in their treble bob course. Each of them is delayed in mak­ing 3rds and 4ths down by one lead end (because the bell which made the bob has pushed itself in, instead).

Remem­ber that you know you will have to make 3rds and 4ths down for the first time in the next lead end — because you dodge 3–4 down with the treble. So you ‘just’ have to notice when you are dodging with the treble in that position.

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