Peal Compositions Committee 2008 Annual Report
The Committee held its first face to face meeting for some time at the Stoneleigh Ringing Roadshow and agreed a program of work for the following year.
The online collection http://www.ringing.org/peals continues to be updated regularly with the latest innovative compositions, and now contains over 10,000 compositions on all numbers from 5 to 16 bells. It is a valuable resource for conductors looking for a composition to suit their needs.
Composition pages appear regularly in the Ringing World. More pages are in the process of being set for publication, and we are also working on columns of quarter peals and special compositions e.g. date lengths.
The Stedman Caters/Cinques collection has been drafted and will be ready for publication by Spring 2009. This contains over two hundred compositions of Stedman and also includes long lengths and compositions of Sextuples.
The committee members are happy to answer technical questions on composition raised by ringers and also advise on the generation, proof and authenticity of compositions.
A motion has been put forward to rename The Peal Compositions Committee as The Compositions Committee so that the Committee remit can include touches and quarter peals.
Current projects in the pipeline include the following - Handbell collection - Update of Collection of Popular Major Methods - Authorship of compositions
Richard Allton
Roger Bailey (Co-opted)
Paul Flavell (Chairman)
Robin Hall
Stuart Hutchieson
Philip Larter
Philip Saddleton
John Thompson