[r-t] Ben Constant's Yorkshire Royal

[edward martin]

So much for logic I suppose :-)
The idea that all possible comps & methods have been around at least
since the Big Bang and are not invented but merely discovered,  is
really quite old. I was just reading of Fred Dexter's comments over
what people had said regarding his No 2 Variation of Thurstans's and
the apparently same but older work by Washbrook
FD pointed out that he had never sought nor yet received any
royalties, and every time the thing was rung, the popular choice had
been to call it Dexter's. Since he had produced some half dozen
singles variations (not so many as Pladdys) nobody actually accused
him of plagiarism.

Eddie Martin

2009/1/14 Don Morrison <dfm at ringing.org>:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:35 PM, tom willis <tompw at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Taking this to its logical extreme (as I tend to do), then surely any two
>> peals of triples in a given method are the 'same', because you've just
>> replaced one block of 5040 with another...
>
> I think the same logic would lead you to observe that all peals of
> plain major are different reductions of some block of of 40,320, which
> could be exchanged with a different block of 40,320....
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