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| Wellington Cathedral Pic courtesy www.e-architect.co.uk |
A quick Google search found bell ringers at the Wellington Cathedral, and I got a response to my inquiry the same day. A couple of weeks back Dakota and I went up there to see them ring the bells on Sunday morning, and decided to go back for a lesson tonight. It was that easy to get training, and it's a volunteer role plus you're trained for free. How can one lose? Plus I can start to tick off some of my contributing to society goals.
I almost talked myself out of it without trying, and I can't figure out why I keep doing this to myself. I am pleased I worked through that as it was very cool.
There was another 'Jenny' there, also keen to see what was involved. The tricky bit is learning to "feel" where the bell is through the rope, and keep things in control both as the rope is going up, and when it's coming down. The bell was muffled so we weren't disturbing the neighbours while we learnt. Despite some moments when the rope went out of control, and the bell got "stuck" facing up (oops) we both seemed to pick up the pattern and movement pretty quickly (trainer's opinion, not ours!)
As Dakota is away this week I'm booked in for another lesson tomorrow night. The aim is to get the basic skills under my belt and then I can start practicing, and ringing for real, with the group.
Exciting stuff!
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