> Hello Rob,
I enjoyed this very much. All the terms from bell ringing are outside my knowledge so there was much I didn´t understand but the power of the rhythm and combination of sounds carried the sense. In some places I´m quite unsure whether I´m reading technical terms or inventive use of language as in e.g. `..flat swung clamouring/bronze flung skyward´ but it doesn´t diminsh my enjoyment of the sound which has quite a Hopkins feel to it. In fact, I liked it a lot more than actually listening to the bells themselves.
Best wishes, Mike
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> Päiväys: 2004/03/26 pe PM 03:46:10 GMT+02:00
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> Aihe: New sub: Wheel, Rope and Bell
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> I've been tinkering with this one for about three years now, and am just trying to iron out any remaining glitches.
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> Rob
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> Call her: Out of the hunt, middle, in and out at 5, right, middle, wrong, right, middle and into the hunt (4 times repeated)
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> Change-ringing instructions.
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> Wheel, Rope and Bell
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> The Quick Work
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> There are hammers in this
> and flat swung clamouring
> bronze flung skyward.
> Treble and bass,
> saint-named, stake claims
> in the course, and every cascade
> thrown from the high-stone
> speaks in the steely wind;
> preaching fear and elation
> to the opened fields.
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> Dodging
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> Follow through columns,
> see the twist of the courses:
> The one bell falling and gaining.
> In slow, half turn, right, middle,
> wrong, right, the second half-turn
> and into the hunt.
> An echoing silence.
> Strands of the peal
> knell wracked in the songbirds;
> A strange competition
> threading the thermals
> with dissonant rainbows
> of primary sound.
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> The Slow Work
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> The edifice wrought by wheel and rope
> is of definite time, and its foxlike employment
> will fall and diminish, wrong and home.
> The touched observation of circles and calculus
> must end in nothing, rest in the stone.
> Out of the hunt, called and repeated,
> four times repeated, wrong and home.
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> Rob Yeatman
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