Bell Ringing Software Available on this Site

THE CALLED CHANGE RINGER

The main features of this program.

• Compose call changes.
• Print the composed changes.
• Save the composition to Disk for e-mail.
• Load in previously saved compositions.
• Hear the sound of the changes on the bells provided or record your own (Instructions included).
• Start from rounds or part way through.
• Auto generate calls to move from the current order of bells to another user specified order.
• Ring 4 to 12 bell changes.
• Full instructions in the built in help file.

SCREEN SHOT

The program is very simple to use. Clicking a swap button changes the bells and prints the conductor's call in the scroll box below. You may select various wording options for the calls. The order of bells above the swap buttons reflect the last change entered. In the example above, the first column shows the order of bells after the call is executed. The second column gives the calls according to the choice set by the user. In this case the first call is the down call. The next call is for the other moving bell, in this case moving up. The next is the call for the unaffected bell. Commonly known names are appended to the end. Pressing Undo will remove a bad change entered.

Use the Options menu to select the bells, calling convention and number of whole pulls per change. A full description of the user interface is available from the program's Help menu. Press F1 on the keyboard to see the help screen at any time.

Once you have composed a few changes, press the Ring Bells button. An indicator steps down the calls as they are rung. To start partway through the composition, click the line at the position to start from in the Conductor's call list, then press the Ring Bells button.

Listing Options

These controls adjust how the changes are listed on screen and printed too. As conductors have different ways of calling changes, the program has the flexibility to change the wording of the calls it creates.

Here is a brief explanation. For example, if the first change from rounds swap bells 2 and 3.

• To call UP, the conductor would call two to three, as two is moving UP a place.
• To call DOWN, the conductor would say three to treble, three is moving DOWN a place.

To help the less skilled ringer, some conductors call both of these together. Press INCLUDE THE OTHER BELL for both calls.

The number four bell does not move in the example, however it rings after a different bell ( the second ), and should be able to deduce this. By pressing the option for INCLUDE ALL AFFECTED BELLS this third instruction will be displayed too.

The Bell Numbering controls, change the wording displayed from TREBLE, TWO, THREE to 1, 2, 3.

Download Instructions

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In the panel below this text. Click on the section of the panel containing the underlined file name. This is an installer for this application.

Once fully downloaded, install the Bell Ringing Program. You don't need to be on-line. Find the file you downloaded with My Computer, double click the Icon which looks like this. The installer will instruct you what to do. When completed, you may delete the downloaded file or copy it to another computer.

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