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Changes on Fonr Bi 11$.

To prick tke extent of the changes on four bells.—On three bells the hunting course will produee the exteot of the changes, but on four there are twenty-four changes, and as the hunting course only produces eight, sonie other means must be taken to produee the extent. It can be done in the following manner : Prick the changes on four bells in the usua! way until the treble comes to the lead at hand-stroke, that ¹² 34 change will be i 3 2 4,    , .

²4i3

4231

4 3 ^{2 1} 3412

3 5 4^{2 1} 3²4

J 34²

3 3 ² 4

3    ^{2 1} 4 ² 3 4 ^x

²    4 3 ¹ 4² 1 3 4i²3 1432

¹    4 ² 3

4i 3²

4    3 ^{1 2}

3    4 2 J 3 ²4 3 23 * 4

2    134

¹ 243

1234

No w if the next change be pricked in the way previousiy explained, the bells come into rounds. Instead of this, let the bel) in sec.ond’s place remain in that place while the treble leads the last blow of its whole puli, and change only the two hincjermost

bells; Ihis gives the change 1342,

Now the treble has come to the place from which it started, but the other bells are in different positions. If the changes be again pricked in the usual way, where we had the second there will now be the third beli, while the second will be in the place formerly occupied by the fourth, and the fourth in the place of the third beli. From this point prick the changes in the usual way until the trehle agatn leads at hand (143 2), when the same alteration must he agam madę at back-stroke, ocherwise 1342 will come over again; the two hindermost bells only must therefore now be changed, which gives 1423. Once morę prick the changes as usual until the treble again leads at hand (124 3), when, if the bel! in second's place be not then kept in second’s place, 1423 will come over again, but if this

be done we get 1234, and we have the whole twenty-four

changes that can be prodneed on four bells.