Change Ringing by Wilson Wilfrid (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Missing jacket. The dust jacket of the book is missing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition, Faber and Faber, 1965, hardbound with dust jacket. With effusive inscription filling front free endpaper by unknown bell lover. Text unmarked. Moderate foxing, dusting to edges, splashes to jacket, else gentle wear, aging. With pamphlet "The Bells of Exeter Cathedral" by the Rev. J.G.M. Scott tucked inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Fairly good condition for year.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st U.S. Edition. Illustrated with 8 black and white photographs. 238 pages. Previous owner, Percival Price (1901-1985) - also, an author of books on bells - was the first professional carillonneurs in North America. He was the carillonneur at Metropolitan Church in Toronto; at Park Avenue (now Riverside Church) in New York City; at the Peace Tower of the Houses of Parliament in Ottawa, Canada; and at the University of Michigan. Percival Price's signature is on half-title page. Red/brown cloth, gilt titles and design on spine. Near FINE/--. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Fourth Impression. Large Octavo. XV, 238 pages with a section of excellent photographs of Bell Ringing in action etc. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of wear to the dustjacket. Rare ! Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a tightly controlled manner to produce precise variations in their successive striking sequences, known as "changes". This can be by method ringing in which the ringers commit to memory the rules for generating each change, or by call changes, where the ringers are instructed how to generate each change by instructions from a conductor. This creates a form of bell music which cannot be discerned as a conventional melody, but is a series of mathematical sequences. It can also be automated by machinery. Change ringing originated following the invention of English full-circle tower bell ringing in the early 17th century, when bell ringers found that swinging a bell through a much larger arc than that required for swing-chiming gave control over the time between successive strikes of the clapper. Ordinarily a bell will swing through a small arc only at a set speed governed by its size and shape in the nature of a simple pendulum, but by swinging through a larger arc approaching a full circle, control of the strike interval can be exercised by the ringer. This culminated in the technique of full circle ringing, which enabled ringers to independently change the speeds of their individual bells accurately to combine in ringing different mathematical permutations, known as "changes". Speed control of a tower bell is exerted by the ringer only when each bell is mouth upwards and moving slowly near the balance point; this constraint and the intricate rope manipulation involved normally requires that each bell have its own ringer. The considerable weights of full-circle tower bells also means they cannot be easily stopped or started and the practical change of interval between successive strikes is limited. This places limitations on the rules for generating easily-rung changes; each bell must strike once in each change, but its position of striking in successive changes can only change by one place. Change ringing is practised worldwide, but it is by far most common on church bells in English churches, where it first developed. Change ringing is also performed on handbells, where conventionally each ringer holds two bells, and chimed on carillons and chimes of bells, though these are more commonly used to play conventional melodies. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Copyright 1965 by Wilfred G. Wilson. Published by Faber and Faber. Very good hardcover. Good dustjacket as issued. Dustjacket has small tears and bumped edges at top and bottom due to shelf-ware. Otherwise dustjacket is clean, unmarked, has no large rips, and the color is still vibrant. Boards and back-strip have very light shelf-ware with only slightly bumped corners and edges. Back board has slight reader's damage on inside. Name and date is inscribed on front page and pages have yellowed according to age. Otherwise they are clean, unmarked, not ripped, and the binding is tight. B0000CMS80. Packaged using bubble wrap and a sturdy cardboard box. Tracking number provided for no extra cost. Thank you for supporting our small town, family owned book store.