[r-t] The most uninteresting peal composition?

[Don Morrison]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Richard Allton <rchat at allton.org.uk> wrote:
> Back in the 1970s/1980s, Jeremy Housden produced a composition of Plain Bob
> Major that was one course long. The tenor spent almost all the peal as 2nds
> or 3rds place bell. Rumour has it he was put out when he realised that with
> a bit more effort he could have kept the number of rollups to 2 (the comp
> has 4!).
>
> Needless to say, the conductor insisted Jeremy rang the tenor!
>
> I have the figures if anyone is interested!

While on the subject of maximized tedium, the following, while only a
quarter peal in length, does merit some consideration, I think:

  http://ringing.org/main/pages/printable?id=5239&collection=quarters

If you take a bobs only peal of Original Major, you can trivially turn
it into an astoundingly tedious peal of Original Royal or Maximus
using only two kinds of call. Anyone fancy a 2500-fold dodge in 11-12?


-- 
Don Morrison <dfm at ringing.org>
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