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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PRK: Apologies.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On lettering!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a copy of the CC Collection of Minor
Methods – 5<sup>th</sup>
Edn. – 1975.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When I was learning to ring, the tower hade a
copy of the
previous edition of this book along with the companion Doubles
volume. I have
an idea that the date of these was 1961 but it seemed to me at the
time that
the 5<sup>th</sup> Edition was a simple reprint of the 4<sup>th</sup>
especially as it refers to the first three editions only in the
Preface.
Perhaps someone could confirm this.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Inter alia, the Preface also contains this
statement: ‘all
new methods in the book have been named with reference to
prominent six-bell
towers throughout the country..’!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Minor book used G – O for the method
groups. How long
this went back I do not know, but it seems to be that way because
A – F
had been used for the 2nds & omit lead-end Doubles methods.
This could be
perfectly logical given the mind-set of the time when rings of
twelve were few
and far between.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The problem here is that 14 (+1) letters have
already been
used and 8-bell ringing needs 12 more letters – <a
href="mailto:that@s"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">that’s</span></a>
one too many – so the scheme re-starts with ‘A’ on 8-bells. This
was only
arranged for eight bells so the scheme on eight or more is,
basically, ‘A’ –
‘M’. We can argue until the cows come home as to whether the use
of C1 for
Royal methods with lead-end 1907.. makes some sort of sense, but
something like
this would have to be done even if we had used ‘A’ – ‘Z’. 16 bells
has 30
possible lead-end types after all and there are at most 26
letters.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At some point, someone decided to make it more
logical by
having Plain Bob (on even numbers) all use the same letter – as
for Kent,
Cambridge, etc – so that’s why the change was made. Now we
seemingly have
complaints about making this consistent when we’ve had complaints
about
inconsistency.</p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">To whom does this matter? Composers and
conductors
chiefly. If they (composers especially) are incapable of coping
with this,
well!!! It is most convenient in composing spliced, of course. I
used it myself
some years ago when generating all seventy two, distinct, complete
courses of
spliced surprise major (with same lead-end place) along with all
4320 spliced
courses of mixed 2nds and 8ths place lead-ends – using BASIC. (I
then did it
for 10 bells). Most people do not conduct and fewer compose so, as
I say, they
‘have no interest’ – as in ‘need-to-know’. When I generated all
the touches of
Minor methods, I used ‘G’ – ‘K’ and I quite happily use either
system as the
fancy takes me at the time.<br>
<br>
Best wishes<br>
Robin</span>
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