60 on 3rds extract
60 on 3rds is the most famous and frequently used peal of call changes. It is the test piece of the Devon Association call-change competitions, together with raising and lowering in peal.
The plan is quite simple as can be seen from the first section of the peal that will be used in this competition. After calling the bells into Queens, the treble is called up to 5ths place, the third is move up one position, and then the treble is called back down again. So at this point you are in Queens but with three and five swapped (153246). Then the third is called up another place (to 4ths) and the treble is taken up to the back again. As it passes the third it pushes the third back down a place, so when the treble gets to 5ths the third is moved back into 4ths. Then the treble is brought back down again.
By this point the row is not looking much like Queens any more, except that it is Queens with the third shifted up three places to 5ths place (152436).
In the full 60 on 3rds, this process then gets repeated with other bells doing what the third just did, but for the purposes of this competition we are only continuing to the half way point of 124356 and calling it round. (The full peal is printed in the Ringing World diary)
| Plan | Call | Row | Named change |
| Call bells to Queens | 123456 | Rounds | |
| 4 to 5 | 123546 | ||
| 2 to 3 | 132546 | ||
| 2 to 5 | 135246 | Queens | |
| Call treble to 5ths | 1 to 3 | 315246 | |
| 1 to 5 | 351246 | ||
| 1 to 2 | 352146 | ||
| 1 to 4 | 352416 | ||
| Call third to 2nds place | 3 to 5 | 532416 | |
| Call treble down to lead | 4 to 1 | 532146 | Princes |
| 2 to 1 | 531246 | Kings | |
| 3 to 1 | 513246 | ||
| 5 to 1 | 153246 | ||
| Call third to 4ths place | 3 to 2 | 152346 | Quite nice |
| Call treble to 5ths | 1 to 5 | 512346 | |
| 1 to 2 | 521346 | ||
| 1 to 3 | 523146 | ||
| 1 to 4 | 523416 | ||
| Call third up to 4ths place again | 3 to 4 | 524316 | |
| Call treble down to lead | 3 to 1 | 524136 | |
| 4 to 1 | 521436 | ||
| 2 to 1 | 512436 | ||
| 5 to 1 | 152436 | Ought to have a name | |
| Call fifth to 3rds place | 5 to 2 | 125436 | |
| Call treble to 5ths | 1 to 2 | 215436 | |
| 1 to 5 | 251436 | ||
| 1 to 4 | 254136 | ||
| 1 to 3 | 254316 | ||
| Call fifth to 3rds place again | 5 to 4 | 245316 | |
| Call treble back down again | 3 to 1 | 245136 | |
| 5 to 1 | 241536 | ||
| 4 to 1 | 214536 | ||
| 2 to 1 | 124536 | ||
| Call it round | 5 to 3 | 124356 | |
| 4 to 3 | 123456 | Rounds |