[r-t] Larissa Delight Royal

[Philip Earis]

David Hull's been busy with another new royal method:
http://www.campanophile.co.uk/show.html?Code=33138

Larissa Delight Royal
&3-5.4-5-1-4-5.4-4.7.6-8.9,0 1089674523 AB2c 101 <4-runs>

Larissa is another prize heavyweight method from the Hull stable, weighing 
in just over the 100 <4-runs> threshold for a decent treble-dodging royal 
method.  The overwork takes the neat and recently popular Sussex motif with 
a clever inserted '10' change when the treble hunts through 4-5. Coupled 
with the underwork, this allows the runs off both front and back to be 
distibuted well throughout the course.

The underwork is basically just Triton: the characteristic coursing fours 
reversed and consequent 7890s and 5432s off the front giving some variety to 
the music. And so, unsurprisingly, the method has the Hull/MBD signature of 
regular half-lead-ends, meaning backrounds comes up at handstroke.

Due to the peculiarities of royal, the method when rung with a 12 leadend 
change would have a three-lead plain course. To counteract this a 10 leadend 
is used, though this obviously means the method has four consecutive blows 
in 10ths around the leadend.  Far be it from me to offer an opinion about 
methods having more than two consecutive blows.

In conclusion this is a very pleasant method, though consisting as it does 
of a familiar underwork bolted onto a new overwork, this is not 
groundbreaking. Larissa's similarities to other recently rung methods which 
can easily be seen. The overwork is almost the same as MBD's "Red Dressing 
Gown Delight Royal", though this is less subtle around the half-lead:
&3-5.4-5-1-4-458-4-7.6-78.9,2 1648203957 AB2D2c  102 <4-runs>

It also bears more than a slight resemblance to the slightly older MBD 
method "Jennie's Endeavour Surprise Royal", which packs in slightly more 
music, albeit at the expense of somewhat messy contiguous places:
&3-5.4-5-3-3478-58-6-7.6-8.9,2 1426385079 AB2c  108 <4-runs> Jennie's 
Endeavour

As an aside, in a message to the ringing-chat mailing list at six minutes 
past midnight on Monday 2 June, 2003 (shortly after the Dressing Gown peal 
had been published on Campanophile), I asked why they hadn't rung the more 
elegant published but unrung MBD method "Robin Surprise" instead:
&3-5.4-5-8-7.4.5.6-6.7-6-9,2 1426385079 AB2cd  101 <4-runs>

Jennie Town quickly replied, "Because we are saving that for the next 
attempt of course (name already chosen)".

What became of that peal?