[r-t] Three consecutive blows

[Philip Earis]

One musical effect I like a lot is when ringing spliced you go from a method 
with a plain nths place leadend change to one beginning with notation 3n or 
5n.  Eg going from a plain lead of Bristol to London in a peal of the 
'standard' 8.  The effect is much nicer if you have runs at both handstrokes 
either side of the leadhead, such as going from Kalashnikov to London in the 
Earis 23.

Now this effect sadly doesn't appear in nearly all rung treble-dodging 
methods on 8 and above, because it needs three consecutive blows to be made 
in one place.  "Ineglegant" say the arch conservatives, who don't know what 
they're talking about.  But I think this is supremely elegant - another 
level of symmetry about a point.  I thought I'd have a look to see what was 
possible with this effect.  And if an effect is good enough off the back, 
it's good enough off the front too, so I focused on double methods.


Treble-dodging major: 6 possibilities are given below, all unrung, starting 
with a super mx example of exploting this 3-blow effect.  There's also a 
falseness-clean method, and one of the finest treble-bob major methods 
you're ever likely to see.

mx &56-56.45.5-5.36.4-4.45.34-34.1  Aac   =40 <4-runs>
f/k &56-56.4.56-56.36.34-34.5.34-34.1  Aa =40 <4-runs>
e/j &3-3.1-56-1-34-1.6-6.7  Ba            =48 <4-runs>
e/j &3-34.4-56-1-34-5.56-6.7  Ba          =46 <4-runs>
e/j &-3-1.56-56.1.34-34.1-6-7  Ba         =44 <4-runs>
f/k &-5-45.5-5.36.4-4.45-4-7  Ac          =44 <4-runs>


Plain major: This example is slightly different, with four consecutive blows 
adjacent to a dodge in 2-3 or 6-7.
d &-1.5.1.4.1-7  = 38 <4-runs>


Treble-dodging royal: There's one super example of a mx surprise royal 
method here.  I was very surprised to see it's been rung before, only once, 
in 1997.  It was conducted by Ian Butters: I'm even more surprised that this 
appears to be a good idea where David Hull hasn't got there first. It has 
120 <4-runs> in the plain course: better than Bristol, and about as high as 
you're going to get with a worthwhile method.

mx &-5-4.5-5.3.4-7.8.6-6.7-6-1  Normanby Surprise royal


Treble-dodging maximus: Here's one the fun starts.  Below are two very 
similar mx methods, with stonking run-counts. More than Bristol.  Even more 
than Snow Tiger, and you avoid having coursing pairs the wrong way round. 
And you avoid the falseness issues. Amazing stuff.  There are many, many 
other possiblities if you don't like your music so concentrated or want 
different lead-heads.

mx &-5-4.5-5.3.4-70.30.36-9.0.8-8.9-8-1  =228 <4-runs>
mx &-5-4.5-5.3.4-7.1.6-9.0.8-8.9-8-1  =236 <4-runs>

So what's stopping this taking off, people?