Pennine Treble Bob Minor

About Pennine Treble Bob Minor

Pennine Treble Bob Minor is a member of the Cotswold group of methods, a class which has backward hunting above the treble.

5ths place bell is the pivot bell and with the 2nds place lead end, the calling sequence for 6ths observation is as per St. Clement's College Bob.

Method Structure.

Place Notation:
36X34.16 X 12 X 16 X 14 X 36, 12, Bob 14, Single 1234.

Grid:

Diagram: Pennine Treble Bob Minor, plain lead, change-rows and grid.

Plain Course structure
This method has St. Clement's College Bob Lead End order.

Goals and learning approach

What you are trying to achieve needs to drive your approach.

Ringing by structure

If you are ringing Burton to gain the skill of associating method structure with the work of the treble (valid goal), 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

It is unusual for a band to wish to achieve mastery in a method like Pennine.

Learning Pennine Treble Bob Minor.

The Structure

Learning Pennine Treble Bob Minor after Trinity Sunday Treble Bob is an interesting challenge, the difficulties lie with the 1-2 section which needs to be learned in detail.

The Rules

Pennine is too complex to be defined in a simple rule.

Double Blue Lines

Pennine Treble Bob Minor, 1-2

Diagram: Pennine Treble Bob Minor, 1-2.

Pennine Treble Bob Minor, 3-4

Diagram: Pennine Treble Bob Minor, 3-4.

Pennine Treble Bob Minor, 5-6

Diagram: Pennine Treble Bob Minor, 5-6.

Artefacts

Place Notation and Grid

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

Pictels

Splitting into individual elements is of no value.

Ringing Pennine Treble Bob 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 dodge together in Treble Bob Minor. Some hints and tips for developing the skill are given in the techniques section.

Positional Awareness

Pennine Treble Bob Minor aids the development of awareness of turning round in 3rds uder the treble.

Place Notation Elements

The method contains 4 elements (36X34, 12, 14, 16).

Double Place Bells

135264 LE 12: Plain Bob; Morning Star T.B.; Westminster S.

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

Pivot Leads

3rds Place Bell is the pivot bell.

For 3-4 pair, the pivot point is when they cross over in 4-5 at the Half Lead.
For 5-6 pair, the pivot point is when they dodge together in 1-2 at the Half Lead.

Staging posts (a.k.a. Handrails).

Structural Counting of the triple dodge in 1-2 gives a very brief time to rest.

The methood is tricky above the treble.

Awareness of other bells

Coursing Order in Pennine Treble Bob Minor

Natural coursing order is not preserved Pennine Treble Bob.

Ringing the Method

The tricky nature of the work above the treble combined with the absence of natural courding order demands high levels of concentration.

Bobs and Singles.

Bobs replace the 2nds place at the Lead End with 4ths. This causes the bell that has just made point 6ths to make the bob and become 4ths place bell.

Singles Singles are rarely used in Pennine Treble Bob Minor.

Touches of Pennine Treble Bob Minor.

Bobs only touches of St. Clement's College Bob will work for Pennine TB.