[r-t] Covering bells as degenerate hunt bells

[Don Morrison]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Philip Earis <pje24 at cantab.net> wrote:
> So the absolutely formal name I suppose would could
> be "Plain Bob Triples Major", but it would still universally be known even
> under the current name.

Consider these two cases:

a) The official recording and theory says we call it Plain Bob Triples
   Major, an officially different method than Plain Bob Triples
   Triples, because that's the way we can make the taxonomy we want to use
   work, even though it's universally thought of as just Plain Bob
   Triples.

b) The official recording and theory says we make Malakoff a
   differential hunter with a weird lead end produced by a one-ten
   plain lead, because that's the way we can make the taxonomy we want
   to use work, even though it's universally thought of by those
   actually designing, ringing, and composing with it as a normal Mx
   method with Plain Bob lead ends produced by a familiar one-twelve
   plain lead.

Why is (a) A Good Thing while (b) is heinous? Aren't they at root the
same?



-- 
Don Morrison <dfm at ringing.org>
"Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word!...I don't think it means
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