Well done Simon, great achievement and inspiration!

Fabulous

My brain is aching! Awesome stuff!

That is scarily good!!

Incredible! It's difficult enough ringing a single tower bell to Bristol Max...!!

Simon you look so relaxed!

i have never grasped change ringing on handbells and how anyone can ring 4 bells to Bristol max is freaky

Incredible.

Genius timing and pitch!

@awelotta

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-ku1dr Perhaps he means pitch and yaw :P

Wow, what a legend!

Unbelievable!

Inspiring!

@jamesc3753

5 жыл бұрын

Titlis Busy Kitchen ❤️

speechless!

That's fantastic ringing 4 handbells to Bristol Surprise Maximus I wish I could do that and I ring up in Consett, Co Durham, a 16 cwt Taylor 8 in F and I believe know Luke Smith who rings in Cambridge as I only live 5 miles from his home village of Lanchester.

V impressive!

wow just....wow

1:29 tut tut, Philip ;)

Up next, 4 in hand to Double Helix!

Simon rings at Ticknall Derbyshire

I can do bob minimus, but this is something else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Simon Melen- More like...Simon MELODY, am I rite, people??

I mean, why?

@deeremeyer1749

6 жыл бұрын

Its "music" for "intellectuals" who maybe able to "code" like no other and can "speak" and "translate" machine language into English and vice versa like no other and probably type eleventy billion words per minute but who are so "smart" they're "stupid" and can't "decode" musical notes or operate any instrument requiring simultaneously use of both hands at once or even multiple fingers on a single hand at once to save their lives. So the're "bell ringers" instead. At least these "hand bell change ringers" practice their "art" in "private" unlike the assclown church bell change ringers who assault the general public for up to hours on end with THEIR "music". I think "intellectuals" take "quotes" like "If 700 monkeys type on 700 typewriters for 700 years they will produce all the works of Shakespeare" LITERALLY because they tend to be kind of "slow on the uptake" where sarcasm and other "primitive" forms of humor are concerned. And they look at how many "dumb" and even "disabled" people can and do sing and play beautiful music "effortlessly" and BEETHOVEN who was DEAF AND BLIND and figure its really just a matter of playing enough "permutations" of "notes" and some "music" and "art" is BOUND to come out along the way and since they're "change ringing" following specific "charts" and "algorithms" once they find THEIR "all the works of Shakespeare", it'll be EASY to "play" again and at long last they will prove they're NOT "tone deaf" and that they CAN "carry a tune in a paper bag" and that they ARE "artistic" and "creative" and of course still "intellectually superior to those "fools" who spend years or decades learning how to "read music" and paying for lessons etc just to be able to "cover" someone else's "art'. seriously, do you see anybody in this video or any "change ringing" video that looks "artistic" and "creative" and that seems to have "rhythm"? I do not. I don't see "band geeks" or "choir chicks". I see "chess club" and "debate team" and "computer group" members. And no, there's nothing remotely wrong with that. If they're happy, who gives a shit what anybody thinks about hand bell ringers. They're not hurting anyone. Those church bell change ringers, on the other hand, would sure be "missed" if somehow some crazy "change ringing accident" somehow led to them all getting "strung up" by their own bell ropes, lol. And no, that's not a threat. It would HAVE to be an "accident" because who could listen to that crap for the several minutes it would take to get to the bell tower from the street, lol. Seriously, they have no clue at all that church bells are not "musical instruments" and are not there to "glorify change ringing" or be "toys" to play with while feeling "artistic". They're not even particularly "religious" and only "glorify" those who make a visual and audible "show" of their "faith". They do have "communication" uses and used appropriately and maturely and briefly can be "pleasant" to hear. Usually the further away the better if they're capable of "ringing out" at all. But if I lived close enough to or had friends or family members who lived close enough to that racket and it was a frequent and constant "non-worship" situations which IS the case with MOST "change ringing" that does NOT occur on "Sunday" or any other "acceptable" time, and nobody else would "step up" and get all "blaspheming" and stuff and politely request that the "change ringers" use their "coding" skills to come up with some kind of "Change Ringer Hero" video game or some other means of "rehearsing" or at the very least "strut their stuff" bright and early Sunday morning for CHURCH so all the rest of the congregation could be "graced" with one of their "numbers" and there were no "efforts" to at least show some simple decency, humanity and "Christianity" toward those who simply can't or won't continually hear that without being really "disturbed" by it or God forbid they just decided to "rehearse" more and for longer to get ready for a real "Sunday morning" gig (wink, wink of course), all I know is that whether had to "break and enter" the house of God to do it or not, come next "rehearsal", those snazzy fuzzy "handles" on their bellropes and perhaps the ropes themselves would either be "MIA" or "treated" with whatever "substance" I could come up with to make the rope either as "fragrant" and/or "frictionless" as possible. Probably the "treatment" the first time around since just taking them would be violating a "commandment" and they probably dig getting new "handles" and probably those things end up pretty "fragrant" as it is. But the second visit if they continued their "rehearsals" would probably result in "abduction" of either ropes or possible bell "clappers" with a "treasure map" to where they could be found since I'd never outright steal and keep them. But I'd make finding them a "mission from God". Another VERY interesting and non-commandment-breaking "protest" would be doing some clapper "swapping". I gotta think that just moving clappers around at random but making sure to put the little clappers in the big bells and vice versa would pretty much ruin "rehearsal" for even them. Gotta be damned hard to follow an "algorithm" with bells that go "ting" and "clank" instead of "ding" and "dong". And honestly i don't think they'd be "smart" enough to "reprogram" the bells on their own even if they did seem to be the type to go up an actually get their hands dirty up at the "business end" of those fancy ropes. Honestly when I first saw my first change ringing video and I saw those rope "fuzzies" I thought it was some kind of a joke or something and maybe just the "handles" they put on for a Memorial Day/Independence Day/Veteran's Day "peal" and before they began to play I expected to hear some real, religious and/or patriotic MUSIC. Maybe "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" or some shit. Nope. Just the "circle jerk" change ringers seem to thrive on. Say, do you think that's WHERE the term "circle jerk" comes from? I though of THAT early on watching these videos for "comic relief", too. I'm almost POSITIVE it is. And if its NOT, it damned well should be. Because that's precisely what is going on.

@Steven_Rowe

5 жыл бұрын

@@deeremeyer1749 you dont like handbells or church bells, that fine. But you are beyond stupid for looking at things you dont like and worse still dont understand and making silly comments. Better to keep your mouth shut and let people think your a fool rather than open your mouth and prove it

@johnkiefer1347

3 жыл бұрын

@@deeremeyer1749 You really are a colossal twat. I'm quite proud to be a bell ringer and look forward to offending you with my ringing at the next available opportunity. I also play piano and flute though to quote you precisely, I'm not supposed to be able to "operate any instrument requiring simultaneous use of both hands at once or even multiple fingers on a single hand to save my life". NOW THAT IS PROPER USE OF QUOTATION MARKS !

@Steven_Rowe

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnkiefer1347 Your right he is a twat, and assumes ringers are interlecuals. Yes some we an Simon is obviously a freak being able to ring 4 to Bristol Max Me well I like ringing bells, why???? Well I just do. Why do people like knocking balls down holes in golf, why do people shot clay targets. Because they like it same really that is it. I think the real interlectual twat is the long winded puffed up Muppet who gave a sermon on music. Well he can shove that where the sun has never shone, his bum

I've become convinced that "change ringing" is "music" to "intellectuals" who may be extremely intelligent and are probably computer programmers and "coders" who can translate all kinds of "machine language" into "English" and vice versa but then look at "sheet music" and absolutely do not "get it". And they take a "700 monkeys, 700 typewriters and 700 years" approach to "music" figuring if those monkeys end up "producing all the works of Shakespeare" if they just "change ring" long enough they'll make some actual "music". Maybe even "all the works of Mozart". Unfortunately, the key to being at all "musical" is first of admitting you're not "perfect" and that you can't "think" your way through it and playing "perfectly" and "by the book" is just plain boring. And not "art" in any way, shape or form. And since "change ringing" at its "best" begins and ends with "scales" that sound "musical" simply because the CHANGES note to note are "rhythmic" and "incremental" and "predictable" and NATURAL because as HUMAN BEINGS SPEAK our voices naturally rise and fall. Or at least when we have souls and personalities and emotions. The result is something that is pleasing to the ear because its a "melody" and pleasant. And those of us who ARE "musical" hear "scales" and naturally think of "warming up" and "learning" prior to playing REAL MUSIC. CHANGE RINGING INTENTIONALLY TAKES THAT PLEASANT "MUSICAL" PROCESSION OF NOTES AND IN ABOUT TWO "CHANGES" TURNS IT INTO PURE, UNPLEASANT AND ANNOYING "NOISE" AS "HUMAN BEINGS" DO THEIR BEST TO BE "MACHINES" AND "ROBOTS" FOLLOWING AN "ALGORITHM" APPARENTLY BECAUSE SPENDING THEIR TIME AND OTHER PEOPLE'S HEARING ON SOMETHING LIKE AN ACTUAL "SONG" PLAYED OFF ACTUAL SHEET MUSIC AND RECOGNIZABLE AS AN ACTUAL MUSICAL COMPOSITION BUT REQUIRING A GREAT DEAL OF "PERSONALITY" AND "HUMANITY" AND OF COURSE "IMPERFECTION" IS SIMPLY SOMETHING THEY CAN'T/WON'T/DON'T "LOWER" THEMSELVES TO. I picture the folks who during hymns in church sing in the flattest, deadest and most "out of tune" monotone that amazingly manages to be "monotone" and yet "out of tune" and "flat" beginning to end all at the same time getting butthurt after being told the God's honest truth that they can't carry a tune in a paper bag or knowing they can't and being determined to prove they ARE "musical" and just to make sure the WHOLE WORLD has to hear their "music" for minutes to hours on end instead of just the other congregation members close/quiet enough to "overhear" their "singing" for seconds to minutes tops becoming "change ringers". And I'm convinced they really think that "music" and "composition" is really a matter of "statistics" and "permutations" and that if they just "play" long enough the "law of averages" or "random chance" should produce something at least as "musical" as the opening "scale" like at least every "X squared" number of "permutations" with "X" being the number of bells in the "band". I think they've historically added more and more bells and are up to an "octave and a half" in the "big time" figuring "more bells = more music". Clearly they've never heard Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or Three Blind Mice and are unaware that simply having more "sh!t" to throw against the wall or more throwers does not increase the "odds" or "probability" of any "sh!t" sticking to that wall if all the throwers pretty much "throw like a girl" and/or are scared of getting any on them. And these "hand bell change ringing" so-called bands are only "better" in that with two bells at least per "player" and each player only able to go "dong ding" or "ding dong" and despite having "8 bells" having maybe four actual "whole notes" since I can't hear an "octave" or even close in them and I played trumpet for lots of years and have been singing and singing pretty well since early childhood, their possible "permutations" are relatively few. And of course they're not playing for all the world to hear and quickly and easily figure out that they're not going to "out-music" real hand bell "artists".

@tt__ooo__4613

4 жыл бұрын

So many words, so little sense. Hope you get the stuck quote-mark key fixed soon.

@Steven_Rowe

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not an interlectual, nor am I a maths genius. I do play music but I love church bell ringing. Look I can't understand why people want. To knock a silly ball down a small ball on a golf course, iOS it silly, are the people who watch it silly. If you don't like change ringing that is perfectly reasonable. What isn't reasonable is the attitude of I don't like it nor understand it and therefore it is nonsense. Many people who like it are mathematically minded for sure, some are interlectual but the. vast majority are not. Your right, it not musical, you can't. Play tunes unless the bells are highly hammers and you have a chromatic set of bells like in a Carrilon. I don't even like carrilons tone honest, the sustain of the bells is not controllable like in a musical instrument,but that is just my taste. Remember the old saying, one man's meat is another man's poison??? Well that applies to so much in life.

@awelotta

2 жыл бұрын

there's an album on Spotify of handbell ringing that goes really fast, sometimes in the middle you can hear the repeated pattern in the little bells evolve slowly (here's a youtube link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eop8mq9sj9HHj9o.html ). at the timestamp, I can hear the little bells go "G---------D--F-EC" at regular intervals, and that pattern repeats but the rhythm slightly different each time. if you like minimalist music, you might like that sound