bells

This post is a somewhat technical discussion of some mathematical aspects of change ringing. I’ll assume you have familiarity with changes, leadheads, Plain Bob leadheads, palindromic methods, etc. A question that I’ve always had about change ringing is: Why Plain Bob leadheads? Is there some sense in which this particular set of leadheads is mathematically or musically unique, or is their predominance largely due to historical accident?

This is the third in a series of posts discussing the technical decisions that went into creating Ringing Room, the first web platform for distributed English change-ringing. The first post gives a little bit of background on change-ringing for non-ringers to be able to follow the series. This post looks a bit more at how Ringing Room models rooms (“towers”) on the server.

This is the second in a series of posts discussing the technical decisions that went into creating Ringing Room, the first web platform for distributed English change-ringing. The first post gives a little bit of background on change-ringing for non-ringers to be able to follow the series. This post looks more at how Ringing Room clients communicate with the server.

This is the first in a series of posts discussing the technical decisions that went into creating Ringing Room, the first web platform for distributed English change-ringing. This first post gives some background on change-ringing; my aim is to give just enough background to enable non-ringers to follow the discussion that follows.