[r-t] 41 Surprise Minor

[John Warboys]

A recent peal of 37 Surprise Minor conducted by Peter Ellis had the footnote
"The most Regular Surprise Minor yet rung in a bobs-only peal", this
prompted me to see if I could squeeze any more methods into a normal peal
length with bobs only, it isn't something I've considered before.

 

Looking through work I've done previously on complementary grids, I found
one particular one that looked promising, the following two grids can be
combined into a 1440 as together they contain each grid position twice (in
this example the 6th is the grid bell):

 

Grid 1

 

23456 Lightfoot

56342 Allendale

64523 Allendale

42635 Lightfoot

35264 Bamborough

23456

 

Grid 2 (fragmented)

 

23456 York

35264 Beverley

64523 Beverley

23456

 

56342 Cambridge

42635 Bourne

56342

 

These 2 grids also have London/Carlisle equivalents:

 

Grid 1

 

23456 London

42635 Kelso

56342 London

35264 Coldstream

64523 Coldstream

23456

 

Grid 2 (fragmented)

 

23456 Carlisle

35264 Sandiacre

23456

 

42635 Alnwick

56342 Chester

64523 Chester

42635

 

Looking at the Norwich/Cambridge grids first, the "missing" methods are
Ipswich, Durham, Wearmouth, Norwich, Warkworth and Netherseale.  Durham and
Wearmouth can easily be added using 3-lead splices on the leads of York and
Lightfoot.  Adding in a extent of Ipswich, Cambridge and Bourne gives you
the missing Ipswich.  For Norwich, Warkworth and Netherseale there is an
extent by Andrew Tyler consisting of Norwich, Warkworth, Sutton and
Rossendale; the 5-6 sections of the leads of Sutton can be swapped with
leads of Cambridge from the Ipswich/Cambridge/Bourne extent giving you leads
of Bedford and Surfleet instead, the leads of Bedford can then be converted
to Annable's London as a simple 3-lead splice.

 

So now you've got all the Norwich and Cambridge methods you need in 4
extents, they just need to be arranged so that a plain lead of each method
is included.

 

Next the London/Carlisle grids, the "missing" methods this time are
Northumberland, Newcastle, Wells and Cunecastre.  Newcastle and Wells can
easily be added using 3-lead splices on the leads of Alnwick and London.
Adding in an extent of Northumberland and Carlisle gives you the missing
Northumberland; it also gives you the opportunity to convert leads of
Carlisle to Cunecastre via a simple 3-lead splice.

 

So now you've got all the Carlisle and London methods you need in 3 extents,
they just need to be arranged so that a plain lead of each method is
included.  

 

Some examples of compositions of 2880 in 24 methods, and 2160 in 17 methods,
can be found on my website http://website.lineone.net/~jswcomps/ .

 

So now we can ring the standard 41 in a normal peal length using only bobs,
to the best of my knowledge all previous compositions of the standard 41 in
5040 changes or fewer have required singles.

 

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