[r-t] Compositions of the decade - minor - addition

Alexander Holroyd holroyd at math.ubc.ca
Mon Feb 1 20:10:35 UTC 2010


Indeed, I remember coming up with this (or a variant) in 1984 or so before 
I could ring plain bob minor, and then finding it was in the diary.  My 
favourite "unlosable" extent (also in the diary) is:

W     H
s-s-  -s-
2 part


On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Philip Saddleton wrote:

> Don Morrison said  on 01/02/2010 17:33:
>> Wasn't this in the diary thirty years ago? (I don't have a current one
>> at all, nor even an old one handy, to check.) I'm sure I called it, or
>> something very like it, perhaps with a slightly different arrangement
>> of the singles, more than once long before 2004.
>> 
>> Folding seven iterations together is undoubtedly a newer fangled
>> "improvement", though.
>> 
>
> It was in the diary until 2006. I have called it many times. If the 6 is 
> called s--s-- then 3-4 course for the last four courses as well.
>
> Another favourite for handbells is
>
> W H
> 4 s
> 4 5
>
> 4=s-s-
> 5=--s--
>
> -- 
> Regards
> Philip
> http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/saddleton/
>
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