[r-t] Multi-extent 5-part Surprise Minor

[Alexander Holroyd]

Congratulations, John, this is absoltuely fantastic!  I have long thought 
that something along these lines ought to be possible, but was not sure 
how to go about the search.

Ander

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, John Warboys wrote:

> For the last 9 months I've been working on multi-extent 5-part Surprise
> Minor compositions, and last night one of the resulting compositions was
> rung at Birmingham Cathedral - all 41 regular methods all-the-work in 5760
> changes, with a change of backwork and frontwork every lead.  It's been a
> long haul from start to finish so I'm pleased that this project has now been
> accomplished.
>
>
>
> The maximum I've been able to get in 5040 changes is 39 methods, as far as I
> can tell it's not possible to get all 41 in a normal peal length.
> Nevertheless, 39 methods all-the-work in a normal peal length exceeds the
> previous maximum by 3, and 41 all-the-work in 5760 changes beats the
> previous minimum length for this by 2 extents.  Various different 5-part
> peal compositions for 39 and 41 all-the-work, plus a variety of 1440s and
> 2160s, can now be found on my website:
>
>
>
> http://website.lineone.net/~jswcomps
>
>
>
> You can also find there a (probably rather rambling) write-up of how I
> approached this task and the issues which arose.  Whilst all my previous
> compositions have included a plain lead of every method, this feature had to
> be sacrificed in order to maximise the number of methods included, however
> none of  the methods which you don't get plain leads of have both 2nds and
> 6ths place variants, so they remain uniquely defined.
>
>
>
> John
>
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