<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 3 Jan 2017, at 23:51, Jack Gunning <<a href="mailto:jack.gunning@mac.com" class="">jack.gunning@mac.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I’ve been musing about a B12 comp. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I think 4-bell lb runs are a bit ‘meh’ on 12. I prefer 5+ lb runs but there are only so many of them. I think it’d be cool if there was a comp that maximised lb stuff by using tit-tums back bell positions to ring lb 5/6 courses ‘twice’. I like the idea of the back 6 bells coursing - this spreads the back bells across the row and gets ‘most’ of the mega-titums effect (my personal, very debatable, view)...</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I think this is a neat idea! Runs are nice, but when ringing I always find myself listening to the coursing music as much as roll ups –there’s something quite captivating about the slow progression of a scale, spread throughout the change.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My instinct is that the most efficient way to set this sort of thing up would be to use a link method to get the back bells into the tittums position. I’d much rather learn a new method and have good music than ring just the one and go without, but that’s just my preference I’m sure.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s not the most elegant solution, but -1290.78.169-127-14, LH: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">1645237T8E90 </span>works rather well – the front 6 bells ring two leads of Bastow, nice and simple. So, for example, you could start with two 18-bobs before, and ring one lead of the link method at the course end to get to 1234567T8E90, giving two courses of settling time before moving into a tittums block.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From there, you can do whatever you like. Getting the back bells in their home positions is easy enough, using something like <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">-16.7T.16.9T.1678.90.16-16-16, LH: </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">12345679ET08</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s a back-of-the-napkin first attempt: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">4964 3-Spliced Maximus</div><div class=""><u class="">234567890ET M B W H</u></div><div class="">35264 x </div><div class="">56342 x</div><div class="">(one lead of x1290.78.169x127x14 at the course end, calls now from the POV of the tenth)</div><div class=""><u class="">234567T8E90 </u></div><div class="">43652 - </div><div class="">64352 -</div><div class="">56342 -</div><div class="">24365 s s-</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">(one lead of <span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#333333" class="">-16.7T.16.9T.1678.90.16-16-16 at the course end, calls from the tenor’s POV again)</font></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#333333" class=""><u class="">243657890ET </u></font></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#333333" class="">64325 s </font></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#333333" class="">234567890ET s s s</font></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#333333" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Backrounds, Reverse Waterfall, [assorted runs]</span></font></div><div class="">In case my email client has ruined the formatting, here’s a link to it on Complib: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; white-space: nowrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" class=""><a href="https://complib.org/composition/32174?accessKey=9379ecf6005e3071a134ee48eb9baac065dedc18" class="">https://complib.org/composition/32174?accessKey=9379ecf6005e3071a134ee48eb9baac065dedc18</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; white-space: nowrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">Of course, any gibbon can see that this is not a very good composition – it’s not musically optimal, it’s inelegant, and it’s a lead or so too short! I’m not sure I can do much better with just pen and paper though. I’ve listened to this on a simulator, and the results are somewhat pleasing: having the back 6 bells in tittums for a long time lends a unique flair to the music, and coupled with little bell runs it’s quite satisfying. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It would be nice to see this sort of idea go somewhere – for those of us that haven’t rung a particles peal, it’s perhaps a slightly easier way of getting to ring some tittums music across the whole change. I look forward to seeing what more clever people than I can come up with.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pip</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class=""></div></div></body></html>