First posted: 5 October 2025

Promoting Ringing to Percussionists

Sarah standing presenting from a slide show
Sarah presenting, with Luka (far right) managing the laptop and Laura (far left) watching on

On Saturday the 4th of October, I, supported by Deryn, Laura and Luka, presented at the Percussive Arts Society - Day of Percussion, run by the University of Melbourne. We had a varied audience of about 40 people. As it was part of a music event, we focussed our presentation on the music of ringing, speaking about the various ways we depict and think about our "sheet music" such as blue line, circle of work, and place notation.

We demonstrated rounds, queens and tittums on handbells to show the musicality of what call changes can achieve. We also did the "dance of plain hunt" with five audience members joining three us to show how pairs of bells swap, which really helped everyone in the audience to understand how place notation works.

smiling faces by a room label
Sarah and Luka at the "Melbourne Bellringers" room

I had a great time talking to a group about bellringing and would love to do it again!

Sarah Stancombe
5 October 2025

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