[r-t] Stephen Ivin

[Mark Davies]

I proved one of his peal compositions for the G&B last year - a one-part 
of Grandsire Triples, rung for the first time. Can't believe he is gone.

Roddy writes,

 > The 5088 is the only 3 part tenors together, bobs only, of normal
 > peal length to contain 144cru's. (I exclude reversals,
 > transpositions and the one moving a H to a W)

Indeed, although there are two of the latter:

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Bristol
x58x14.58x58.36.14x14.58x14x18 l18
5000 5184
144
bob pn14 3B 6M 7W 8H
part 3

MUSIC
cru
1 0 xxxx5678 xxxx6578 xxxx4678 xxxx6478 xxxx4578 xxxx5478

SMC32 search started on Sat Jan 09 00:00:24 2010
5088	144	3	HHMM HMM HHW MWW HMMBWW
5088	144	3	HHMM HMM HHW MWW HHMBWW
5088	144	3	HHMM HMM HHW HWW HHMBWW
5088	144	3	WW HWW HHMMBW HHMM HM HH
5088	144	3	WW HWW HHMMBW HHMMW M HH
5088	144	3	WW HWW HHMMBWW HMMW M HH

SMC32 search complete on Sat Jan 09 00:00:29 2010
593.142 million nodes generated
58991 Compositions found, 618544 rotations, 6 output
Best score 144, longest length 5184
Time taken: 0:00:05.601
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(I had several conversations with Steve about composing with SMC32 - I 
think he liked to go back over his old peals and check he hadn't missed 
anything! Certainly not a man to avoid modern technology.)

MBD