HRGB Scotland Magazine June 2011 Web

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Hello and welcome to thissummer edition of the Scot-tish Regional magazine.

Firstly, a very big thank youto Callander Chimes whohosted our Spring Rally andAGM. We had a great turn-out with 82 ringers fromeleven teams attending. Anenjoyable afternoon of ringingwas ably led by our massedringing conductors - ElaineDuffus, and Lysbeth and Mal-colm Wilson. Listening to theindividual teams ring, it isgreat to hear how much thestandard of ringing has risen.The AGM saw a couple of changes to the Regional Com-mittee. Jean Routledge stooddown after five years as secre-tary and several more as acommittee member. Thank you, Jean, for all the hardwork you have done for theRegion. Marge Paterson,Cumnock and Dunoon ValleyHR, becomes our new secre-tary and Liz Jamieson joins uson the committee.

As yet, we have no venue for our Spring Rally and AGMnext year. Could your teamoffer to host? Do you have asuggestion for a venue? If so,

please let me know. The

committee will be on hand toassist with all the organisingof the day.

Five Scottish ringers attended

the National Rally at RoyalHolloway College in April.This excellently run eventafforded them lots of ring-ing opportunities. In 2013the National Rally comes toScotland. The dates for your diary are the 12 th 14 th April 2013 and thevenue the Normandy Hotel,Renfrew. This will be anopportunity to attend a vari-ety of workshops to im-

prove your ringing and to join with other ringers fromaround the UK in massedringing sessions and it ison our doorstep,

This years ScottishSchools Ring was held at

Newton Primary School,Dunblane on 12 th May. 140young ringers joined in afun day of ringing, includ-ing Castletown PrimarySchool in Thurso who wereable to participate throughGLOW, the Scottishschools secure intranetservice. Thanks are due toLysbeth and Malcolm Wil-son for organising and con-tinuing to encourage our young ringers.

For our Autumn event, your committee are organising

two themed regional rallies.This year is the 15 th birth-day of the Scottish Region.The theme for these rallieswill therefore be

Celebration. Teams will be invited to perform two pieces on a celebratory typetheme. So get your think-ing caps on and lets seehow creative you can be.The massed ringing pieceswill also be on the theme of celebration. Further detailswill be sent out at the be-ginning of August.

The 15th

International Sym- posium happening in Liver- pool next August will soon be here. Are you thinkingof attending? Have yousigned up as a volunteer?Are you perhaps thinking of going to see the final con-cert? If the answer to anyof these questions is yes,

please do let me know. Itwill be great to form a Scot-tish team at this event and itmay be the Region may beable to assist by organisingtravel.

I am looking forward toattending the National Resi-dential Ringing Week inKingston in August. An-other four Scottish ringersare also attending. A reportof this event will feature inthe next magazine.

In the meantime, have a

great summer and happyringing.

Christine D Reid

Scottish Region Chair.

From the Chair

June 2011

Hello

Many thanks to those of youwho have contributed to thisissue. If you are thinking of sending articles for futurenewsletters please send any

photos separately and do notadd any embellishments.

If you are submitting your arti-cle to Reverberations as well

please try to make them differ-ent in some way so that Scot-tish readers are not seeing thesame thing twice. Notificationof your intention to send to

both publications would beuseful.

I hope you enjoy Newsletter 46 and feel encouraged to con-tribute to Newsletter 47 in theautumn.

Sue

Editor

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The rain soaked dawn of Saturday 26 th March was broken bythe sound of alarm clocks of all shapes, sizes and formsthroughout Aberdeen as the Callander Girls (better knownas the ladies of Silver City Chimes!) prepared to set off for the 2011 HRGB Scottish Region Spring Rally & AGM to beheld in Callander hosted by Callander Chimes. Eight of our eleven members all female - were available to attendthis event and were originally known as the Callander Crew. Before long, our male ringer renamed us theCallander Girls!

Proudly wearing new jumpers with our chimes logo on them, we boarded our hiredcoach at 7.30am along with GJK Chapel

Chimers who were also travelling to theevent from Aberdeen. It was an early start but everyone was in good time and in goodspirits so we quickly loaded up the coachand were on our way in the hands of our cheery and capabledriver.

Just over two hours and fifteen minutes later we arrivedsafely in Callander after a very comfortable run. On enteringthe car park at the McLaren Leisure Centre, the venue for theday, we spotted a lady holding a sign which said Rally such a helpful thing to do and we were directed to the en-trance with our loads of tables, chimes, covers, music stands,

packed lunches etc. We were given a warm welcome by our hosts and were directed to our setting up points and to thetea/coffee table. Obviously a well organised event!

Before long the hall was filling up with ringers, equipment,chattering and the sound of the hot water urns. This was agreat opportunity to meet up with old friends and meet newones.

The Regional AGM started at 12noon and our Chairman, Christine, ably assisted by our Secre-tary, Jean, and Treasurer, Lynda, led us throughthe formalities slickly and efficiently. Alan Hart-ley, Chairman of HRGB had joined us with hiswife, Margaret, for the event and he gave us anupdate on the situation regarding ringers in Japanand Christchurch, New Zealand.

With the AGM over, everyone set to enjoy thecontents of their lunchboxes and the delicioussoup provided for us. More chatter and laughter echoed around the hall before we returned to our team places for the rally.

Eleven teams were represented at the event tenof whom performed two pieces. Prior to the team

performances, we joined in massed ringing of Sweet Nightingale (which I had somehow been

persuaded to conduct!) and The Dark Island,

arranged and conducted by Lysbeth Wilson. Sil-ver City Chimes performed the two-octave ver-sion of Arnold Shermans arrangement of Morning Has Broken and a new arrangement written by

Aberdeens Callander Girls Take

to the Road

myself for the day, Two Boats to Iona. As three of our ring-ers had been unable to attend the rally, we were fortunate tohave the willing assistance of Lynda Barclay of JordanhillHandbells to give us another pair of capable hands. The other teams performed a wide and interesting assortment of piecesthroughout the day including Classical pieces, Scottish melo-dies, pieces specially written for handbells and seasonal music

a great variety all played with verve, flair and of course,great concentration! Malcolm Wilson led us cheerfully and

patiently through our third massed ringing setAn Easter Collection (arr. Caesarian Ringers).This had key-changes, time changes, facial ex-

pression changes, the lot. It was quite a chal-lenge but Malcolm kept us on our toes (if notentirely on our notes!)

All too soon the final set of massed ringing cameto an end. It had been a very quick but most

enjoyable day and it was great to see such a good turn-out of teams from around the country. It is events like these that re-mind us we are not alone in our love of ringing in our ownlittle corners of the world. There are people just like us every-where and its great to have opportunities to meet up withthem and share experiences, ideas, music and even the trialsand tribulations!

Just over twelve hours after we set off, we were back in (nowdry but chilly) Aberdeen, ready for a good nights sleep after the early start then we remembered we had to put our clocksforward and lose an hour. Theres always something!

Many thanks to all in Callander Chimes for a great day.

Elaine Duffus

Musical Director, Silver City Chimes

We were given awarm welcome by

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R S R E V E R B E R A T I O N S

A C H W L E P A H C E T I H W I

L H B S H A N D B E L L D O R KL U O T A Y T F R E P P A L C U

Y L C I N E R U A Q I H M C I Z

O M T O D N E C S E R C P E S U

T E A N L A C F S A D B L T U S

A R V A E C N O B R E B O M M N

C I E I D A O R E L A W G A L O

C C S P R R C T L T E M L L E I

A H L X A I J E L R K M Z L A T

T P E R W L P U S S A B B E D A

S R E Y A L P W F R M A E T E TN V P W A O I N K E B E L L R O

T I N T I N N A B U L A T I O N

O F E N G Q S E M I H C E N O T

Award

Bar Notation

Bell Octave

Belleplate Peel

Brass Bells Players

Carillon Rally

Clapper Reverberations

Clef Scale

Concert Schulmerich

Crescendo Solo

Damp Staccato

Forte Suzuki

Handbell Table

Handle Team

Leader TintinnabulationMallet Tone chimes

Malmark

Fun Corner Word SearchIts easy to play anyinstrument: all you

have to do is touchthe right key at theright time and theinstrument will playitself.

J.S.Bach

I am playing all theright notes but notnecessarily in theright order.

E Morcambe

@S Wilson 2011

Last years local music festival saw collaboration between theCaithness Handbell Ringers and the Poltney Bell Ringers whichled to the birth of the Caithness Bell Orchestra proving thathandbell ringing in the county is here to stay. It also ignited

much more interest in handbell ringing in the county and inJanuary of this year Cynthia Hardyman, secretary of the Caith-ness Handbell Ringers started the Thursday Morning Ringers,the beginners branch of the Caithness Handbell Ringers. SoHandbell ringing is thriving in Caithness and bells can be heardringing on Tuesday mornings in Wick, Thursday morning inThurso and Saturday morning in Thurso most weeks of the year!

The Caithness Handbell Ringers hosted a Ring From ScratchDay at the end of March. They invited members of the PoltneyBell Ringers and the Thursday Morning Ringers to join them in

News from Caithness the challenge of learning a new piece of music in a day and

performing it in a concert to round off the event.

The guest musical director for the day, Katrina Gordon hadarranged the ring from scratch music and led the days event.

10am saw us meeting and greeting and the serving of coffeeand cakes. By 11am bells had been allocated - some of uswere not on our usual bells (panic) and the ring from scratchmusic had been revealed. It was Henry Purcells wellknown Abdelazer (The Moors Revenge). Rehearsal com-menced promptly. The first thing that jumped out at mostringers was the unfamiliar time signature of 3/2, but that wassoon explained and we moved on. Lunch breaks were stag-gered to allow each team time to rehearse music of their choice to be included in the afternoon concert.

Joint rehearsal resumed at 1.45pm with a runthrough of Pachelbels Canon arranged by

Katrina Gordon which most of the ringershad rung before in the Caithness Music Festi-val, last year, as members of the CaithnessBell Orchestra. The remaining rehearsaltime was spent on Abdelazer.

The concert commenced at 3.15pm and con-cluded at 4pm. The day had been a reallearning curve for all involved and an eyeopener as to how much work goes into or-ganising such an event. But over all therewas a great sense of achievement. Everyoneagreed it was great to have such an eventright on our door step.

Lyn Ball

Poltney Bell Ringers


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St Johns Scottish Episcopal Church in Dumfries has a new bellchoir under the direction of American-born Carl Wiltse. RobinPaisley, rector, was very supportive of adding this new ensemble tothe churchs music programme, as was the churchs Choirmaster,Jamie Brand. Most of the members of the choir are also membersof the singing Choir, and as a result like the Choir the Bells of St Johns cover a large age range, from 13 to mid -seventies. Thegroup started in the spring of 2010, playing simple hymn arrange-ments. Beginning in the autumn of 2010, they began working onmore difficult music, most notable Hal H. Hopsons Fantasy onHyfrydol. Most recently, they premiered an arrangement of Thereis a green hill far away for organ and 3 octave bell choir. A sub-stantial portion of the choir is from one family: three girls and their father. There are 11 ringers in all. Its gratifying to see how quicklythey have learned the techniques of playing bells, and to see their sight reading skills improve. Things can only get better!

Carl Wiltse

The Bells of St Johns

At our AGM we had the same problem come up as has in thelast 5- 10 years of meeting.how to get new members andkeep the age range lower than 60+??

We have enjoyed our last year with many opportunities to playand to raise our profile in each area, but we still lack members.As the one nominated to improve our image I enlisted the helpof the press and I encouraged a local reporter from The Pressand Journal in an item covering our playing at the induction of the new minister at Cushnie and Tough church. It was in themiddle of the page in the local section of the paper!

Our future events include a new venture having a stall at avery successful local Gala, in Rhynie, which gives a substan-tial amount of money to each group that takes part. We wouldwelcome any suggestions on how to get and keep new mem-

bersplease help!!!

Our year:

Janet Robinson and I attended a car boot sale to raise moneyfor 2 new bells both middle and top C sharp were needed. Our member, Vi, made up 3 quizzes and this raised enough money

Cushnie Handbell Ringersto buy our bells this January for 500.

We have our new uniform to identify our distinctive group.

Members of the Cushnie congregation took in playing the bells as part at Cushnie & Tough Induction in March.

We were well received at the Rhynie Rural, in June, whereMrs Penny, our leader, gave an interesting talk on how our group got started. The ladies then took part in a ring-a-longtime.

We set up our tent at the Cushnie Picnic and Games in Junealso and had a fun musical game to encourage children tocome and play.and thereby attract their parents.

We played in August as part of the musical accompanimentin Cushnie church at their summer joint services.

We played and encouraged the ladies from the Insch group to join in. This was another night of fun, in October.

We took part in the Aberdeen Autumn/Winter rally, and our floral offering for the Mistletoe and Wine theme was muchadmired.

We have a Christmas soiree for ourselves with an excellentmulled wine made by Vi Winter, one of our members.

We have also attended other events and been asked back tonursing homes, sheltered accommodation and outdoor Mar-kets this year, so we feel that we do put on a good showwhen we are asked to events.

Janet Robinson and our leader Mrs Penny were both asked byBrownie packs to speak about the bell ringing club and allowthe children to have a go at playing.

We appreciate being able to play in public but we mostly justlike playing for ourselves and having a good laugh together.

Alison Hunter

Press Executive for Cushnie Handbell Ringers

May 2011

We used to spend ages putting our Belleplates back into the carry casein the right order until

one of us thought of numbering the plasticcovers in the order theygo in the box. Hey

presto! Plates in case inno time.


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Sunday afternoon, May 1st was Marathon Day. My target was35 pieces of music, perhaps more if I wasn't too exhausted! Iwas surprised at the size of the audience - some stayed all theway through, others for about half an hour before wanderingoff for a walk in the lovely area surrounding the Cathedral andreturning later to hear more music and see how I was gettingon. We had large cards on display which showed the totalmounting as I worked my way through the list.

I managed 38 pieces and it took me 2 hours and 35 minutes. Iwondered if I should have carried on longer in case peoplearrived late expecting a marathon to go on for a long, longtime but I was tired and decided that the marathon aspect wasreally the number of pieces I rang rather than the length of time.

The total amount raised was just over 800 absolutely amaz-ing. Thanks are due to all my sponsors but I should particu-larly like to thank those ringers from the Scottish Region who

The Parish of Dunkeld Handbell Ringers have a routineof going on tour every other year, enjoying social timetogether and giving concerts in aid of charity. Two

years ago we went to the Orkney Islands. For our 2011Tour the group is to perform in Oban (on the westcoast), in Duart Castle and Tobermory (on the Island of Mull) and in the Abbey on the Island of Iona., wherewe have rung before.

(As we were to be in Mull, ringing in Duart Castle wasa must being the home of Sir Lachlan McLean, ClanChief of the McLeans and we have two McLeans in thegroup!)

Trying to think of ways to raise funds for transportingall our equipment (the ringers pay all their own ex-

penses) it was decided that I would do a SponsoredSolo Marathon in Dunkeld Cathedral. People couldsponsor the event itself, the number of pieces actuallyrung or could choose, from the list provided, a piece of music, which I would ring for them when they came tothe Cathedral.

A fund-raising Coffee Morning was held at The Tryst,Pitlochry in March, with proceeds being shared betweenHeartland Radio and group funds (to assist with the cost of transporting equipment on tour to Oban, Mull and Iona). Toour horror, we woke that morning to find deep snow, with a

blizzard raging which lasted the whole morning. Disaster!

Who would eat and buy all the goodies wed made? No -onein their right mind would turn out in such weather! Some

brave souls did though and we raised 255 disappointing,

but also surprising in the circumstances. We realised, how-ever, that we would have to think of something else for thetransport fund and we did a Sponsored Solo Marathon, of which there is a report elsewhere in the newsletter.

The Parish of Dunkeld HR Since then members have

been kept busy ringing inBridge of Earn, Perth, Burrelton, Forgandenny and in servicesat the Cathedral together with the choir and organ.. Eight at-tended the Rally in Callander and thoroughly enjoyed the day.

There was a lovely welcome from Callander Chimeson arrival and help with carrying our equipment. Weliked the music selected for massed ringing, enjoyedthe varied performances by other teams and thoughtAnne made an excellent compere.

Soon after the Rally Margaret and I were on our wayto Callander again, invited by Callander Chimes tospend a morning with them. They wanted to see moresolo ringing and also to have-a go themselves. Every-one tried, amidst much laughter. Maybe well seethem solo ringing at a future rally.

Handbell Harmony continues throughout the sum-mer in Dunkeld Cathedral every Wednesday from 2 4 p.m. (with the exception of June 8 th when the groupis on tour).

One of the stated aims in our Constitution is to pro-mote the art of handbell ringing in the wider commu-nity and we try to fulfil this in our many activities e.g.our tours and the production, so far, of two DVDs andthree CDs, all selling well far and wide with 15% do-

nated to Cornhill MacMillan, Perth. The latest CD is entitledIona Farewell after a piece composed for small ensembles

by Bill Gray, one of our members, and inspired by our lastvisit to Iona.

Its only a couple of weeks now before we set off on our trav-els. By the time you read this we shall be back home. Hope-fully having enjoyed a week of each others company, plentyof ringing and raised a large amount for charity.

Was this a first for the UK?W e l l d o n e

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It was good to meet up with so many of our bell ringingfriends at the Regional Rally and AGM in Callander and itwas great bonus to have Anne Goodall, who has recentlymoved from Glasgow to Boat of Gartan, join us for our

performance as well as the massed ringing as some our team had been unable to come.

We then had a weekend visit to Boat of Gartan. On Satur-day we were able to meet up with ringers from Invernessand Caithness who Anne had been in touch with. On theSunday we rang in the local church before heading back

to Glasgow.We have just finished our season with our shared annualcharity concert with the Jordanhill Community choir rais-ing over 400 for the Well Multicultural Advice Centre.

Christine and Ruth are looking forward to being part of the Ringing Week in Kingston upon Thames in August.

Ruth Cantlay

Jordanhill Parish Church HR

News from Jordanhill Parish Church HR

Jordanhill Parish Church Ringers ring in Boat of Garten

Inverness Caithness Jordanhill Ringers

Closing Date for Issue 47 Saturday 24th September 2011

Sunday afternoon, May 1st was Mara-thon Day. My target was 35 pieces of music, perhaps more if I wasn't tooexhausted! I was surprised at the sizeof the audience - some stayed all theway through, others for about half anhour before wandering off for a walk in the lovely area surrounding the Ca-thedral and returning later to hear

more music and see how I was gettingon. We had large cards on displaywhich showed the total mounting as Iworked my way through the list.

I managed 38 pieces and it took me 2

hours and 35 minutes. I wondered if Ishould have carried on longer in case

people arrived late expecting a marathonto go on for a long, long time but I wastired and decided that the marathon as-

pect was really the number of pieces Irang rather than the length of time.

The total amount raised was just over 800 absolutely amazing. Thanks aredue to all my sponsors but I should par-ticularly like to thank those ringers fromthe Scottish Region who generouslysupported me. The amount raised wasmore than needed for transporting the

equipment and so the surplus will beshared between the three charities whichare to benefit from the proceeds of our concerts on tour - Cancer MacMillan,The Royal National Lifeboat Institutionand The Organ Fund at Oban Church (for a badly needed organ). None of themoney will remain in group funds.

What we should like to know is wasthis the first sponsored solo marathoninhe UK?

Heather McLean


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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY _ 1-6 August 2011 National Residential Ringing Week, Kingston

Details in Reverberations

8 October 2011 Regional Rally, Bankfoot, Perth

22 October 2011 Regional Rally, Cathcart Church, Glasgow

30 March 1 April 2012 Natiional Rally, University of York

31 July 4 August 2012 15th International Symposium, Liverpool

12 14 April 2013 National Rally, Normandy Hotel, Renfrew

Ring in Praise at Dunblane CathedralYou're going to do WHAT? You're going WHERE?WHY? Just some of the questions asked of me by friends

both bell ringers and non bell ringers alike. Then theyshrug their shoulders and say Well it is you, isn't it!

So, what are the answers? What was I going to do that soastounded my friends? Only attend the Ring in PraiseSeminar in Dunblane. Maybe it was that I was going to bedriving my elderly camper van from Dorset. Maybe it was

because I wasn't taking the most direct route (490 miles) but was going via Ipswich and Hull (720 miles)! Maybe itwas because I wanted to go because I'd enjoyed it so much

previous times.

And that it the crux of the matter. I enjoy it not just be-cause of the food (which is excellent!); certainly not be-cause of the weather (only once has the sun shone in Dun-

blane when I've been there); not because I was going to begiven a tablet (didn't know about that till I got there); but

because in my experience the Ring in Praise Seminar isunique. It is the only event which is specifically about bells(and belleplates and chimes) within church worship. Assomeone who tries to lead a small group of ringers in asmall Baptist church it is encouraging to meet with otherstrying to do the same from across the world; it's encourag-ing to learn more of what I can do to enhance the worshipfor all who attend; it's good to be stretched in my own

playing which hopefully will make me a better player inthe other groups with whom I play.

It's a pity we can't transplant Dunblane south of the border so more people will have a shorter journey, but we can't.So why not make a holiday of it and stay a bit longer in theland of Bonnie Prince Charlie, Burns, Nessie and whisky.Thank you Dunblane and all who are involved in organis-ing the Ring in Praise Seminar. See you again another year.

Beryl Bariana

Buckland Road Baptist Church, Poole, Dorset

Four of us travelled up from the Borders, staying in Douneovernight. The following morning we arrived early atDunblane cathedral and were soon in conversation with alady who had travelled all the way from Dorset. After cof-fee we were split into groups and two of us chose Ring allDay under the patient guidance of American Bill Mathis.Our first session was in the cathedral with visitors wander-ing around. As a complete novice with bells ( I normallyring Belleplates) I found Bills half hour tutorial on tech-nique before we started work on the pieces of music ex-tremely useful.

At lunchtime we were treated to a concert from DunblaneCathedral Handbell Ringers as part of their summer pro-gramme. We heard seven beautiful pieces with MatthewBeetschen the organist accompanying.

After lunch we continued practising in the hall and had tokeep our wits about us with many new techniques to re-member. We worked through sessions 2 and 3 without a

break so we were pleased to stretch our legs or sit downwhen tea time came.

After tea we had a final practice session before performingour pieces to the other delegates. I hope they made allow-ance for any mistakes made.

My only regret is that only 25 people took part this year inwhat was an excellent event.

Sue WilsonBorder Bells


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The Scottish Schools Ring 2011 washosted by Newton Primary School inDunblane in May. Within the schoolitself 120 pupils were gathered from 10schools around the country and were

joined via video-conferencing link by 20 pupils from a Caithness primary school tomake music together. With groups using

belleplates, handchimes and handbells all140 pupils worked together on massedringing pieces of music (including onewhich had children ringing, singing andwalking round the hall).This was the 12th annual event of its kindand the second year in which the eventwas broadcast live across the ScottishSchools secure intranet, Glow, using se-cure video-conferencing. Glow is avail-

able to every pupil and school staff member in every school in Scotland. It is thefirst national intranet to do so anywherein the world. The system provides pupilsand teachers with a vast range of onlinecollaborative tools and content. The Scot-tish Schools Ring last year was the firsttime a national music event was held inthis way. The Glow video-conferencingtool within the special group for schoolswith handbells, hand-chimes or belleplatesanywhere in Scotland

now makes it possiblefor the event to bevisible to thoseschools which areunable to travel to theevent itself, but whowould like to take

part. That meansthose schools whichare geographically

just too far away totravel to the eventitself and back in the same day can log into

the secure Glow site for this event and seeand hear what's going on. And CastletownPrimary School in Caithness attested to thesuccess of this tool this year.

Susan Watson, Primary 5-6 ClassTeacher at Castletown Primary Schoolin Caithness said: "The Scottish SchoolsRinging Glow Meet was fabulous! Thechildren really worked well preparing

the music and were so excited on the

day itself. Plenty of learning went onand the listening and concentration skillshave definitely improved as a result of the ringing! We successfully managed to

play along and thank everyone who was

involved in setting up the meet andmaking the technology work! I cer-tainly look forward to taking part infuture events like this using Glow. It iscertainly the way forward for a school

like ours which is in a

"remote" part of thecountry." And her pupils agreed. Keirain Primary 5 and Ella in Primary 6said: "It was really fun!"

Scottish Schools Ring goes a-Glowing via Caithness!

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Houston PS


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Isabella in Pri-mary 6 said: "Ienjoyed theRinging Day alot. It helps youwith music,listening, con-centrating andteam work. It

was good thatwe did it onGlow because itsaved money and time. My favouritetune was Scotland the Brave." Avoid-ing the expense and time to get fromCaithness to the event (which wouldhave been a round trip of nearly 500miles) was also picked up by Shannonin Primary 6 who added: "We couldn'tget to Newton Primary School in Dun-

blane but it was good meeting themonline."

As well as all schools joining together in massed performances of three pre-

pared pieces of music, individualschools were given the opportunity to

perform their own music on their ownif they wished to do so. Danny fromPrimary 6 in Castletown PrimarySchool said: "My favourite was listen-ing to Titanic!" - this having been per-formed by Greenmill Primary Schoolin Cumnock, Ayrshire.This is always a hugely enjoyable andrewarding afternoon of music making.Participants work together on 3 piecesof music for massed ringing, provided

in advance - and the music (arranged by both Lysbeth Wilson, who is principalorganiser of the event and Malcolm Wil-son, who also conducted the massed

performances) is provided in three ver-sions to best suit the abilities and experi-ence of schools - there is a simplifiedchords version, a melody-only versionand a full version combining the accom-

paniment and melody. That way all

schools can take part - and there weresome pupils who did take part this year who had only been ringing for a matter of a few weeks! Carri Lee, Taylor,Paige, Morgan, Liam and Keegan fromAvonbridge Primary School in Falkirk all took part after only ringing for a fewweeks and all wrote about their experi-ence of the event in the comments areaof Glow for other schools to see: "Wehad a good time, we liked it a lot andwish we could go back." Lewis andKristen from Bainsford Primary Schoolin Bainsford also said of their experi-ence: "We were very nervous because

we had only been prac-tising a few weeks. Everyone was reallynice and we had a good time. We likelearning to play the belleplates."As an extra item this year Cameron Nisbetand Sarah Cameron, music tutors inFalkirk Council, led pupils in learning andaccompanying a round where all of the

pupils moved around the room to stand beside others from other schools who all

had notes which formed part of the samemusical chords. The grouped chord pupilsused this as an ice-breaker and chance tomeet others from other schools and then toaccompany the song. Lisamarie and KellyMarie from Slamannan Primary School inFalkirk said: "We enjoyed meeting pupilsfrom other schools, and talking to them,and we liked singing and playing at thesame time."We are very grateful to the headteacher of

Newton Primary, for kindly making theschool premises available for the event.

Malcolm Wilson

Bainsford PS


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2011/2012 Committee

ChairmanChristine Reid

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SecretaryMarge Paterson

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Treasurer Lynda Barclay

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Newsletter Editor Sue Wilson

Lockerbie Cottage

East End

EARLSTON

Berwickshire

TD4 6HU

01896 849469

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Sales Manager Mary McGregor

117 Perth RoadBLAIRGOWRIE

PH10 6DX

01250 873735

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NEC RepsChristine Reid

Lynda Barclay

Committee MembersElaine Duffus Ruth Cantlay Marge Paterson John Elcock

c/o Kaimhill School handchimes 25 Craigdhu Road 33 Barrhill Road 4 Trabourn Cottages

Pitmedden Terrace MILNGAVIE CUMNOCK Elvingston

ABERDEEN G62 7TN Ayrshire HADDINGTON

AB10 7HR 0141 956 2496 01290 420769 EH41 3SX

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Lysbeth Wilson Irene Duncan Liz Jamieson

Elmbank 15 Abbey Road Ardmhor Cottage

Doune Road SCONE Ochiltree

DUNBLANE Perthshire CUMNOCK FK15 9AR PH2 6LW KA18 2QH

01786 823358 01738 552653 01290 700314

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Handbell Ringers of Great Britain

Registered Charity numbers 298945 (England) and SC038918 (Scotland)

Honorary Life MembersLysbeth Wilson

Malcolm Wilson Website Administrator

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Ex-Officio Member Anne Smith Archivist

01224 318081

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HRGB Scotland Magazine June 2011 Web

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