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Tune ringing on handbells - workshop

Saturday 30th September 2023

11:00 am – 4:00 pm (Registration from 10:30 am)

At St Peter’s Church, Ropley, SO24 0BX

(Just off the A31, about halfway between Farnham and Winchester)

Ring easy-peasy massed handbell ringing music - with a flavour of Christmas - come on your own, with a friend or two, or bring a team!

Cost £10, Under 18’s free - Includes sheet music, liquid refreshments and cake!

Buffet lunch £5.00 extra, or you can bring a packed lunch.

To book a place or places, please use this Booking form

(closing date  25th September)

This workshop is organised by the Winchester District of the Winchester & Portsmouth Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers, working with the support of the South East Region Handbell Ringers of Great Britain. Everyone from the Winchester District or further afield is welcome to come, although numbers will be limited.

We want to bring unused sets of handbells back into use and form new teams. One of the new teams coming is from Easton. They have been loaned a set of handbells from Bishops Sutton which were in regular use up till about five years ago. They recently held a taster afternoon for twelve ringers and thoroughly enjoyed themselves:

The Easton handbell taster session

 No previous experience necessary. With this workshop you will be able to learn to ring some simple music, in time for Christmas, helped by some experienced tune-ringers. If you have your own set of handbells, you can bring them along, otherwise all handbells, music and equipment will be provided.

If you would like to see a demonstration of the different musical effects that can be produced by a set of handbells, watch this video of the Hawthorne Christian Academy playing Coldplay's 'Clocks' on handbells.

(Click on the image to view video).

We are currently researching the history of handbell and tower bell ringing in the local area and have developed a seperate webpage with some of the information that we have collected. This can be viewed here: Some History

Handbell Ringers of Great Britain | (handbells.org.uk)

Winchester District - Winchester & Portsmouth Diocesan Guild of Church Bellringers (wpbells.org)

For further details contact handbells@bellringing.co.uk

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