BOGEDONE Delight Minor

About BOGEDONE Delight Minor

BOGEDONE Delight Minor has the fluid hunting work above the treble of the CHADKIRK Treble Bob Minor
Group. Below the treble the work has moved away from Kent and Oxford but with 3rds place at the 4-5 cross-sections, Oxford places in the 5-6 section and 5ths place at the Half Lead. Thus we have long dodging in 1-2 separated from the places and dodging work in 3-4. The mixture of fluid work above the treble with static work below makes this an excellent method for practicing structured counting.

4ths place bell is the pivot bell and with the 2nds place lead end, the calling sequence for 6ths observation is as per Little Bob Minor.

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

• BOGEDONE Delight Minor (Ibid)
• FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor
• Leasowe Delight Minor

In July 2025 Bellboard had just 4 handbell performances that included BOGEDONE Delight Minor.

Method Structure.

Place Notation:
X 36 X 16 X 12 X 36 X 34 X 56, 12, Bob 14, Single 1234.

Grid:

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

Plain Course structure
This is a fluid method above the treble with helpfully static work below. 3-4 progress lead by lead forwards until they dodge together and then reflect. 5-6 work together in the pivot lead in 3-4, but do little work together.

Goals and learning approach

What you already know and what you are trying to achieve needs to drive your approach.
BOGEDONE is perfectly suited as an exercise in Treble guided structural ringing.

Ringing by structure

DO NOT learn the lines, learn the structure, ring, make mistakes and learn from them. Track-the Treble skills, Place Notation skills, coursing order skills can all be developed in this manner

Performance Level

If you are wishing to achieve 720s, Quarters, or peals:
start with the structural ringing as above, add in the bits that are natural to you.
Study the lines.
Practice a lot.
Achieve some performances .

Method Mastery Level

Mastery of BOGEDONE Delight is perfectly feasible.

Learning BOGEDONE Delight Minor.

The Structure

The course structure is as per Duke of Norfolk Treble Bob minor.

The Rules

BOGEDONE Delight Minor - the rules
Ring CHADKIRK Treble Bob Minor above the Treble, and
NORWICH Surprise Minor below with 5ths at the Half Lead

Double Blue Lines

BOGEDONE Delight Minor, 1-2

Diagram: BOGEDONE Delight Minor, 1-2.

BOGEDONE Delight Minor, 3-4

Diagram: BOGEDONE Delight Minor, 3-4.

BOGEDONE Delight Minor, 5-6

Diagram: BOGEDONE Delight Minor, 5-6.

Artefacts

Apart from 5 consecutive dodges in 1-2, BOGEDONEis well behaved.

Place Notation and Grid

The pictorial grid emphasises the structure of the method better than the Place Notation.

Ringing BOGEDONE Delight Minor.

Track the treble

Awareness of the position of the treble is a key skill for most bellringing methods, and is the major key to ringing BOGEDONE Delight Minor. Some hints and tips for developing the skill are given in the techniques section.

Positional Awareness

BOGEDONE Delight Minor is highly fluid above the treble. Transition into 1-2 is one bell per lead, so the distinction between 1-2, 3-4 and 5-6 places is quite clear.

Place Notation Elements

The method only contains 5 elements (X, 12, 34, 16, 56).

Place Bells, Pivot Leads, and Handrails

164523 LE 12: Little Bob; Duke of Norfolk T.B., Bourne Surprise

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

The pivot bell (4ths pb) makes 5ths at the half lead.
For 3-4 pair, the pivot point is when they dodge together in 1-2 at the Half Lead.
For 5-6 pair, the pivot point is when they dodge together in 3-4 at the Half Lead.

Handrails
The long dodging in 1-2 is a handrail.

Awareness of other bells

3-4 dodge together 4 times in the plain course.
The Oxford Places in the 5-6 section are made by a coursing pair.

Coursing Order in BOGEDONE Delight Minor

BOGEDONE Delight Minor exhibits much natural coursing order. Experienced ringers will pick out the parts that are immediately valuable to them, and then build up the full awareness of coursing order.

Ringing the Method

BOGEDONE Delight Minor gives good practice at associating a piece of structure with a piece of Treble work.

Bobs and Singles.

Bobs replace the 2nds place at the Lead End with 4ths. This causes the bell that has just made 3rds to make the bob, make thirds once more.

Singles Singles are rarely used in Treble Dodging Minor.

Touches of BOGEDONE Delight Minor.

BOGEDONE Delight Minor has the same lead-end order as Little Bob Minor.