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An example of change ringing ( with six bells ), one of the earliest nontrivial results in Graph Theory.
* January 7 – The first recorded full peal is rung, at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City of London, marking a new era in change ringing.
* Treble, in change ringing, the bell with the highest pitch
The south-west tower holds 14 bells ( tenor 59 cwt or 3 tons ) hung and rung for change ringing and 22 carillon bells ( tenor 23 cwt or 1. 2 tons ) which are played from a batonkeyboard in the ringing chamber.
The change ringing bells are rung regularly on Sundays before Church Services and at other occasions, the ringers practise on Tuesday evenings.
The ring is now made up of twelve bells, hung for change ringing, cast in 1962, by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough.
Bath is a noted centre of change ringing in the West Country.
The South West Tower ( Oxford Tower ) contains the cathedral ’ s main ring of bells, hung for change ringing in the English style.
Southwold tower contains a ring of eight bells hung for change ringing.
Today, change ringing can be found all over the world, performed in a variety of media ; but it remains most popular in the context where, in the 17th century, it developed: English church towers.
In change ringing where the order in which the bells strike is constantly being altered, it is necessary to time the swing so that this strike occurs with precise positioning within the overall pattern.
There is, however, a second school of change ringing on handbells, which uses a technique called ' lapping ', or ' cross and stretch ': the ringers stand or sit in a straight line at a single convenient table, from which they pick up a bell each time they ring it ; and to which they thereupon return it.
In call change ringing each row is specifically called for: one ringer ( the conductor ) tells the others how to swap their bells ' places from row.
Most ringers begin their ringing career with call change ringing ; they can thus concentrate on learning the physical skills needed to handle their bells without needing to worry about methods.
There are also many towers where experienced ringers practise call change ringing as an art in its own right ( and even exclusively ), particularly in the English county of Devon.
Their music was, broadly, repetitive minimalism, often of great technical difficulty ( Hobbs's Working Notes ( 1969 ) for four toy pianos ), great dynamic power ( Shrapnel's 4 Toy Pianos ( 1971 )), were used in various combinations with reed organs, and used compositional techniques that were either specific to British experimentalism ( such as systems music, invented by John White ), or borrowed from other disciplines ( such as Alec Hill's use of change ringing systems ).
If the stepping frequency matches the resonant frequency then the ringing increases and the motor loses synchronism, resulting in positional error or a change in direction.
Unique in North America, the central tower has two full sets of bells a 53-bell carillon and a 10-bell peal for change ringing ; the change bells are rung by members of the Washington Ringing Society.
Such collections such as a Flemish carillon, a Russian zvon, or an English " ring of bells " used for change ringing have their own practices and challenges ; and campanology is likewise the study of perfecting such instruments and composing and performing music for them.
The cathedral has 13 bells hung for change ringing, including a flat sixth bell.
The church has 3 bells ( the oldest dating as far back as 1666 ) in the church hung for English change ringing and one sanctus bell hung for chiming.

change and on
It really looked as if a change of the sort predicted by Booker T. Washington had been going on.
In its defensive formulations, the theory will attack conscious change on the grounds of the independent existence of the community.
The distracted Miriam would agree to a settlement through her legal representative, then change her mind and make another attack on Wright as a person.
If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.
Britain in the nineteenth century is a textbook designed `` to give the sense of continuous growth, to show how economic led to social, and social to political change, how the political events reacted on the economic and social, and how new thoughts and new ideals accompanied or directed the whole complicated process ''.
The art of Defoe and Richardson is founded on an awareness of this great change.
I hope the man who plans to sit on his hands until the emergency comes will have a change of heart, will get busy and be the first member of our `` plus-one '' shelter club.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a great newspaper, the New York Times, on the occasion of a major change in its top executive command.
For change is dependent on the possibilities that individual men glimpse for the future.
If the target can change its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.
When this occurs, I make the change on the sketch or on the final watercolor -- if I have been working on a full sheet in the field.
Since the details of the elections were settled the change of government had no direct effect on the technical aspects of the elections, and may have been more important as an indication of royal displeasure with the U.N.F.P.
Beyond the aesthetic and technical aspects of this expansion we must consider the change in pottery style on broader lines.
Since the change to better nutrition, he feels he can report on improvements in health, though he considers the following statements observations and not scientific proof.
The worker who lives on a farm cannot change jobs readily.
And for a man who traveled around without any change of clothing, a few more stains on his dark suit may very well have gone unnoticed.
When I switched on the lights for her to come and get the check, I had the exact change plus a dollar tip.
( page 33 ) On the other hand, a little later on he says: `` Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes.
The indecision did not last long: during May 1963 the CCITT Working Party on the New Telegraph Alphabet proposed to assign lower case characters to columns 6 and 7, and International Organization for Standardization TC 97 SC 2 voted during October to incorporate the change into its draft standard.
; Blocking: A schedule for conducting treatment combinations in an experimental study such that any effects on the experimental results due to a known change in raw materials, operators, machines, etc., become concentrated in the levels of the blocking variable.
From 1764 onwards, there was a gradual change from a slave-based society to one based on production for domestic consumption and export.
The WD-2 robot can change its facial features by activating specific facial points on a mask, with each point possessing three degrees of freedom.

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