<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>| This will happen anyway, extension or no. ;-)<br><br></div>Yes but extension still encourages it. Most methods that extend don't usually extend in a way that produces particularly desirable methods on higher stages. Obviously there are some notable exceptions, again particularly amongst the standard methods, but I think the best of those (eg Bristol) would have been found without codified extension rules. <br><br></div>Would people ever ring Superlative S Maximus for instance if it didn't share it's name with an excellent and well known surprise major method?<br></div>Cambridge rapidly losses it's charm on more than 6 in my opinion. Lessness / Cornwall / Uxbridge are all quality methods on 8 but their 12-bell equivalents would be pretty tedious to ring for any purpose other than maybe the occasional lead in a spliced composition. <br><br><br><br> <br></div><br><div><div><div><br><br><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 March 2017 at 17:53, Mark Davies <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@snowtiger.net" target="_blank">mark@snowtiger.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Alan asks,<span class="m_-8291296064839286183gmail-"><br>
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Yes from a purely mathematical perspective. But is there not a risk that<br>
obsessing over extensions only encourages people to ring substandard<br>
methods simply for the sake of them being an extension of some method they<br>
have either heard of or like the name of?<br>
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This will happen anyway, extension or no. ;-)<div class="m_-8291296064839286183gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="m_-8291296064839286183gmail-h5"><br>
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