This article is about a church bell ringing method. For an archaic term for "grandfather", see Grandparent. For the English hill, see Grandsire (hill).
Method of ringing bells
Grandsire is one of the standard change ringing methods, which are methods of ringing church bells or handbells using a series of mathematical permutations rather than using a melody. The grandsire method is usually rung on an odd number of bells: Grandsire doubles is rung on five working bells, grandsire triples on seven, grandsire caters on nine and grandsire cinques on eleven. Like all odd-bell methods, where there are sufficient bells, it is normally rung with a "cover" bell, which stays in the last position in each row to add musicality.
The grandsire method is usually rung on an odd number of bells: Grandsire doubles is rung on five working bells, grandsire triples on seven, grandsire caters...
Restoration Division Squirt (horse) (foaled 1732), a Thoroughbred racehorse, grandsire of Eclipse Deflection, in billiard and related games Squirt division,...
knowledge in 2017, 6,929 peals of Grandsire Caters (on 10 bells) were rung in the 300 years following 11 January 1711. Grandsire Caters was the leading 10-bell...
basic building block of method ringing is plain hunt. The first method, Grandsire, was designed around 1650, probably by Robert Roan who became master of...
presumably been assembled by Doucedame the Younger. The diary of Jean-Jacques Grandsire (also broken into two parts) that ends when he and Bets leave Malpertuis...
rename the Russell Senate Office Building after McCain. A quarter peal of Grandsire Caters in memory of McCain was rung by the bellringers of Washington National...
the seemingly invincible War Admiral (sired by Man o' War, Seabiscuit's grandsire). The two horses were scheduled to meet in three stakes races, but one...
His recommended route starts at Windermere railway station and includes Grandsire at 818 feet (249 m) and a nameless summit at 806 feet (246 m). The summit...
(who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes). He is notably the grandsire of Triple Crown winner Affirmed, Kentucky Derby winning filly Genuine...
American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2003 Belmont Stakes and is the grandsire of the 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. Owned and bred by Prince...
defeat, the Pandavas and Krishna visit Bhishma. Yudhishthira urges the grandsire to tell them how he may be slain, to prevent the devastating loss of Kshatriya...
great warriors seated in the court, but each of them, namely, Bhishma (grandsire of the clan), Dronacharya (teacher/guru of Kauravas and Pandavas) and...
sire was placed in two groups); a grandsire counts eight points, a great-grandsire four, and a great-great-grandsire two (female progenitors do not count...
it is offered. I am the sire of the world, and this world's mother and grandsire. I am he who awards to each the fruit of his action. I make all things...
Mahabharata states that Bhishma, a statesman of Kuru Kingdom and the grandsire of the royal family, travelled to Madra and asked for the hand of Madri...
Yudhishthira stepped down from his chariot to take blessings from his grandsire Bhishma, teachers Drona and Kripa and uncle Shalya, who all were in his...
Mystik Dan Mystik Dan in 2024 Sire Goldencents Grandsire Into Mischief Dam Ma'am Damsire Colonel John Sex Colt Foaled (2021-03-04) March 4, 2021 (age 3)...
respective horse's male line: Matchem was the only descendant of his grandsire, the Godolphin Arabian, to maintain a male line to the present; the Byerley...
Nasrullah: one of the most successful Thoroughbred sires of the 20th century, grandsire to Secretariat Native Dancer (also nicknamed the Grey Ghost): won 21 of...
his lifetime, Obo II was claimed in advertisements to be the sire or grandsire of nearly every prize-winning cocker in America. The two breeds of cocker...
sire of the 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, and was also the great-grandsire of 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew. He was an outstanding sire of...
stallion, slightly shorter than Figure, who in turn was the sire and grandsire of Black Hawk and Ethan Allen. Black Hawk, born in 1833, went on to become...
Locks was inbred 2 × 2 to Crab – he was both her maternal and paternal grandsire. Sportsmistress would produce a total of 11 foals including Sir Thomas...
Stallion Breed Arabian Sire Al-Marah Cassanova [1] Grandsire Rapture Dam La Bahia Maternal grandsire Hanrah Sex Stallion Foaled March 6, 1969 Died June...
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