What are Abel, Mabel and Mobel?
Abel is the most popular change ringing simulator in the world for Windows PCs, for both home and tower use. Mabel is a ringing simulator for the Apple Mac, intended primarily for home use. Mobel is a simpler simulator for Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Mac; and for Android phones and tablets too. Ringing simulators are used by learners and advanced ringers. At home and in the tower, learners use them to practise call changes, plain hunt, and basic methods; advanced ringers use them to practise for peals and public demonstrations of ringing, right up to the level of Bristol Surprise 16 and 100-spliced minor. Towers also use Abel for "silent practice" sessions. All the simulators can also display the blue line diagram for any method.
Abel, Mabel and Mobel are the latest in a line of bellringing simulator programs starting with one running under DOS in 1993. Versions of Abel are available for Windows 95 onwards; the latest version of Abel runs on Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista. Versions of Mabel are available for any version of Mac OS X from 10.4 (Tiger) onwards; the latest version runs on MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra) onwards. Versions of Mobel are available for iPhone and iPad with iOS 3 onwards; the latest version runs on iOS 12 onwards, and on Apple Mac with MacOS Big Sur or later. Mobel also runs on Android systems from Android 5 (Lollipop) onwards. Ringers have bought about 20,000 AbelSim ringing simulators. All AbelSim's profits go to charities, including ringing-related charities.Abel and Mabel provide a wide range of features, simulating all the situations you're likely to encounter in real-life tower- and hand-bell change ringing. You can use Abel or Mabel to:
- Practise ringing and conducting from the keyboard
- Ring any method or touch, on any number of bells from 3 to 24
- Practise calling and ringing Call Changes
- Splice up to 100 methods
- Print methods and touches
- Simulate tower bells or handbells, using real bell sounds - you can add your own recordings, too
In addition, Abel provides the following facilities intended mainly for use in towers:
- Connect to sensors on external bells - so you can ring real bells or dumbbells or dummy handbells with Abel to practise with a perfect band, and also have truly 'silent' practices
- With Abel 3.8 or later, ring with a "Moving Ringers" display, providing real ropesight
- Vary the quality of the striking, and get reports on the accuracy of your own striking.
Mobel provides the facilities that are most useful on a mobile device: the ability to practise plain courses or touches of any method, or spliced, by tapping the screen or using a hardware keyboard, and display the blue line diagram of a method or touch.
For further details of the facilities of Abel see the product documentation. For further details on Mabel and Mobel, see Mabel Info and Mobel Info.
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Abel ringing tower bells
Abel ringing handbells
Mabel ringing tower bells
For Mobel screenshots, see Mobel Info
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