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Tower bells are like cars because I regularly surround myself with people who know how to operate them, whereas I'm going "this is hundreds of pounds of metal and you treat it with the reverence of a loaded weapon that could seriously hurt someone?? you expect me to control this??" and after things inevitably go wrong I freak out which causes me to be even more anxious and inept, and also I look like I'm about fifteen, which I'm not.
I don't know what handbells correspond to. I like handbells.
I don't know what handbells correspond to. I like handbells.
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Date: 10/7/22 11:59 am (UTC)I learned to drive a car at the age of 33 after moving to the midwest, and there were absolutely moments in my driving lessons where I was telling myself "I can ring Plain Bob Major, I can do this!"
Handbells I am not very good at, but I lack practice. ("I have to keep track of 2 bells now, and the bells don't have momentum?") When ringing on virtual bells (which is pretty much all I do now, I need to actually make plans to get to a tower sometimes) I'd rather ring 1 bell than 2.
Enjoy the AGM (assuming that's where you're at)!
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Date: 10/8/22 12:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/8/22 02:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/8/22 09:08 pm (UTC)(Someone, not me, dislocated their shoulder yesterday, which is not calming my nerves either.)
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Date: 10/8/22 09:55 pm (UTC)I think it was good for me that my ringing trajectory involved learning to handle a bell first over the nine months I spent studying in the UK, at the end of which I was at the level of ringing rounds and call changes -- and then having to relearn everything when I took up ringing again 7 years later -- it took me a few months to get back to the level I left off at, and then a few more months after that until I was considered ready to ring without someone watching over me. I am not a fast learner for anything requiring physical coordination, but I am a stubborn one.
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Date: 10/10/22 04:34 pm (UTC)