Australian and New Zealand Association of Bellringers

Association

Select Australian & New Zealand Association if the performance is for ANZAB. Selecting from the drop down menu will help avoid typos.

Performances for Other associations, guilds or societies should use their Association name, but ensure that the Location, County and Dedication standards used by ANZAB are followed, as described below.

Place

When you start typing in the Place field BellBoard searches a tower database and comes up with suggested Place, Dedication and County.

For Tower performances, you should use the values provided even though they may not match ANZAB's requirements.

For Handbell performances, enter the town, city or suburb under Place, and record the street address or location (or name of ring) under Dedication.

County (or country)

When you start typing in the Place field BellBoard searches a tower database and comes up with suggested Place, Dedication and County. You should use the values provided even though they may not match ANZAB's requirements.

If necessary, for Australian locations, enter the Australian state or territory name IN FULL (copy and paste from the list on the left of this page). DO NOT enter or add Australia.

For New Zealand locations, enter New Zealand.

Dedication (or address)

When you start typing in the Place field BellBoard searches a tower database and comes up with suggested Place, Dedication and County.

For Tower performances, you should use the values provided even though they may not match ANZAB's requirements.

For Handbell performances, enter the town, city or suburb under Place, and record the street address or location (or name of ring) under Dedication.

Length

The number changes rung. This is NOT the time taken to ring the performance - see Duration.

Method

The FULL name only of the method rung should be entered in this field, ie 'Cambridge Surprise Minor' and NOT 'Cambridge S Minor'. The only exception is if you ring spliced, in which case the word 'Spliced' should be entered in this field as shown in the example below. If more than one method is rung, the names, numbers of methods, changes of method, whether it's all the work or not rung etc. should be entered in the Details field.

Some examples of Dos and Don’ts are given below:

If you ring with treble leading all the time and/or 768 cover (say), then this information should also be entered into the Details field and NOT the Method field as above. Additionally, please note that place notations for new methods rung should be entered in the Footnotes field, and NOT in the Details field. There are lots of other permutations possible, so please contact the directly if you have any queries about this.

Duration

Provide for peals, and optionally for quarter peals.

Express as hh:mm - e.g. 00:43 NOT 43 minutes, 03:15 NOT 3h15m.

Tenor

Provide for peals, and optionally for quarter peals.

For tower bells express tenor weight as cwt-quarters-lbs (e.g. 21-3-07), not 21cwt or 21.8cwt or kilogram equivalent. If BellBoard has suggested a tenor weight, please check it and amend as necessary.

For handbells express size in centimetres (e.g. 15 cm).

Details

See the guidance under Methods for the content of this field.

Composer

The name of the composer, and if possible the arranger, should be both entered here, e.g. 'R C Offen (Arr. A J Beer)'. You don’t need to put 'Composed by' in here as this is the default assumption but you DO need to put 'Arranged by' as this is not assumed.

Don’t put Arranger or Composer names in the Details field please!

Ringers

ANZAB's practice is to use the following name formats for ringers. No stops or commas. Initials separated by spaces. Hyphens are allowed.

Quarter peals

[Preferred First name] [Surname]

Examples:

Tom Perrins
Adam Beer
Enid Roberts
Mike Collinson
Robert Weatherby Jnr

Peals

[Preferred First name, with initials] [Surname]

Examples:

Thomas M Perrins
Adam J Beer
B Enid L Roberts
Michael J A Collinson
Robert T W Weatherby Jnr

Please endeavour to follow ANZAB standard practice, and check with the ringer or search BellBoard if in doubt.

ONLY Ringers' NAMES should be entered into these fields other than adding "(C)" to indicate conductor(s). Any footnote references e.g. 'First Peal' or '(from Perth)', should be entered in the Footnotes field. Do not include honorifics such as "Dr" or "OAM before or after the names as it interferes with the current system for analysing performances.

Footnotes

Notes of achievement and Dedications should be entered here, in that order.

To help automatically identify new methods when they are rung, please include one of the following phrases EXACTLY in the footnote (although they don’t have to match the case): 'First quarter in the method', 'First peal in the method', 'First quarter in the variation', 'rung for the first time', 'First extent in the method', 'First round block in the method'. Phrases like 'First QP in the method' won't work, so please don't use them. However, if you've rung and named more than one method, 'First quarter in the methods' WILL work, as it contains the phrase 'First quarter in the method'.

Submitting

You have an option to Preview or just Submite the performance. Some checks will be done. After submitting there will be an option to submit to Ringing World amongst other things.

Additional information post submission

Once a performance has been submitted, its submitter can make various edits and addionts via the Pencil icon at the top of the page for the performance.

Edit. Use this option to correct your original submission, such as spelling of names.

Send to / withdraw from RW. Use this to request a performance be printed in Ringing World.

Add comp. Use this to add details of the composition such as a complib URL.

Upload photo. Add a relevant photo if you wish. If it includes other people, ensure they (or their relevant guardian) have given permission for it to be published.

Link to event. BellBoard offers a facility to link a performance to a BellBoard Diary Event such as ringing festivals or tours. Linking or marking a performance usually occurs when multiple performances are expected to be rung for an Event and facilitates the reporting of the performances as a group, often in conjunction with an article about the event.

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Submit correction. Use this if the submitter is unable to make the correction.

Mark in memorium. Marking a performance usually occurs when multiple performances are expected to be rung for In memoriam, and facilitates the reporting of the performances as a group, often in conjunction with an obituary. For isolated performances rung in memory of someone, the footnote will suffice and you need not mark it as In memoriam.

Donate. Please support the hosting and maintenance of BellBoard by donating if you are able to do so, with a larger donation expected if the performance is to be printed in Ringing World.

Set RW issue / page. This is only likely to be relevant if you are submitting historical performances, already printed in Ringing Workd.