The Free-Format Multi-Method Touch Editors

With version 9, Beltower allows three types of Multi-Method Touch: Spliced, Mixed and Generic, and they can be used completely interchangeably.   It now also allows Mixed Stages (eg. Triples and Major) within the same touch.   They can be edited (with an unlimited number of methods and including splice at half-leads), rung, proved, analysed, listed, printed etc.   Beltower can accommodate virtually every type of notation.   Shown here are some of the more difficult examples.

Calling Positions

Screen Shot 1: a peal of Spliced Surprise Major

,   shows calling positions, using column headers, in spliced mode, including repeats, with a conditional insertion.   Half lead method changes and Rounds can also be entered here.   It also shows the course heads listing (where the tenor is at home, and with the treble and tenors omitted).   As you can see, there is a prover and there is a False Rows Report as well.


The methods, under abbreviations, can be easily selected through the Touch menu, typed in manually or added automatically from selected defaults.

Screen Shot 2

  shows Mixed Methods and Mixed Stages using calling positions and column headers.   This illustrates different conductors (3 for Triples and 4 for Doubles) both calling themselves into the hunt and out at 2.   It also shows the call heads listing (without plain leads but with the lead/event count), and optional dashes for Bobs.   The defined calls and positions basis are updated as you move the cursor, as shown here with the cursor on Grandsire Doubles.   The listing shows only 5 bells for Doubles, but you also have the option to include all bells in the listing.


It will automatically stop at rounds, where it comes round naturally, part way through a lead (eg. at a snap lead, hand or back stroke), and you can call Rounds here as well, where it is valid.   Half-lead method changes and Rounds can be entered in both calling positions and call events modes.

Call Events (Lead Ends)

Mixed and spliced touches can be entered in a similar fashion, as illustrated in Free-Format Touch Editor, but with a method ID on the end of each line, as illustrated here.

Generic Touches

Some callings can be used with a variety of methods, all of which can be included under Abbreviations, and by simply changing the method ID, as shown above in the header for Grandsire (#G), a touch can easily be applied to a different method.