Touch Analysis

  reports the musical analysis, which bells perform all of the work and the calling positions transposed for each bell.

Musical Analysis

  looks for musical content eg. Queens, Kings, Tittums etc..   It also looks for combined roll ups (CRUs) plus all parts of rounds, reverse rounds, major and minor chords and the like, within the change and across hand+back strokes.   With v9.04, this has been extended to include 5478s and the like, transposed and extended on higher numbers.   Almost 500 (on 16 bells) musical changes are searched, although which rows are musical is, of course, personal, and you get different music with the tenor behind.

All the work:

  shows which bells do all the work of working bells, all the work of plain leads (incl. unaffected), all the affected work at calls, and also which are unaffected.   These can be useful, either for the technically minded peal ringers, or to help a learner on practice night.   With v9.04, it has been applied to multi-method touches, where all the work at plain leads is significant.

Calling Positions:

  Each of the working bells is listed, with the positions when each call is made, transposed for each bell.   While calling positions are usually applied to the tenor, this can help you to identify touches which can be called easily from another bell.   The Call Pos' button allows you to copy a set, for any of the bells, directly to the free-format editor.

Screen Shot 1:   This example is a standard 120 of Plain Bob Minor, Wrong and Home repeated, from the tenor. The stars indicate that the roll-up might be found across hand-back strokes. All working bells are shown to do all the work, as they each start at least one lead in each place.   None of the bells do all the work of affected bells, at the calls   ie. Run In, Run Out and Make The Bob at succesive Bob calls.   The 6 is unaffected at all of the calls. The position names are editable, so you could change 'makeit' to M (normally Middle), 4, 4ths, F or IV, if you wanted to.

Method, Touch and Peal Prover The prover checks methods and touches, including spliced, of unlimited length, so an extent of Major is no problem. The prover has a fast-check mode for most methods, and the false rows, false lead heads and false course heads reports give details of duplications. The False Rows report   Screen Shot 2:   shows details of duplications.