A request to ring Kent at practices

[Laura Dickerson <lauradi erols com>]

  Ross Finbow is offering to host a ringing workshop in Pittsburgh in 
late summer based around ringing Kent and Oxford.  We don't ring them in 
tower  here except on rare occasions, but maybe
we should take it up.  They don't have the magic "surprise" in their 
names, they don't have complex blue lines (something many people seem to 
want for a brain thrill) and they can be hard to strike.  I'm becoming 
convinced that these
latter two attributes are also the reason that people *should* ring them 
- most of one's brain power can be used to concentrate on striking 
instead of on the method, but since the line includes hunting and 
dodging and place making, most of the possible striking difficulties are 
there (and any others can be experienced by ringing Stedman). 
  One can learn the blue lines, for ease in splicing, but most people 
ring Kent & Oxford by learning a system instead.  British ringer Jennie 
Towne is working on a list of tips for ringing Kent and has promised to 
email them around once she's done, so I'll have those on hand eventually.  
Laura Dickerson