[r-t] Early peals of Cambridge Maximus

[Alan Reading]

If you swap the opening WM with the MHW that follows it you can get
something with even more lbr courses and the little bell tittums course
thus:

5280 Cambridge Surprise Maximus
Composed by H Law James (rotated)

M  W  H 23456

-     - 64352

   2    45362
2     - 42563
   -    64523
-     - 35426
   -  3 23456


This feels even more contemporary and apart from being a 5280 is probably
as good as any existing peal of C12.





On 23 January 2013 16:26, Philip Earis <Earisp at rsc.org> wrote:

> I was interested to see a recent peal of Cambridge Maximus rung at
> Redcliffe, marking the 100th anniversary of the first peal of it on the
> bells (this was also only the 6th ever peal in the method) -
> http://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=273006
>
> What I found especially notable was the original composition that was rung
> - a 10 course block by H Law James.  Instead of being the tired and
> uninspired arrangement (keeping the 6th home, for example) I'd have naively
> assumed, it actually has really a rather fresh and neat feel to it
> (especially after the opening three courses) with plenty of little-bell
> courses:
>
> ==
> 5280 Cambridge Surprise Maximus
> Composed by H Law James
> M  W  H    23456
>    -       52436
> 2     -    56234
>    -       35264
> -     -    42563
>    -       64523
> -     -    35426
>    -  3    23456
> G&B composition 915, First Rung 18/1/1913, Redcliffe.
> Originally attributed to W Pye (G&B composition record), however recorded
> in the peal records and on the tower peal board as H Law James.
> ==
>
> It almost feels contemporary. So where did things all go wrong? What
> caused people to bash out (and ring) surprise max compositional
> monstrosities with gruelling "combination courses ends", etc? How come
> 50,60,70,80+ years on people ended up ringing things like (to pick one of a
> plethora of typical mediocrities) this?
>
> 5042 Cambridge Surprise Maximus
> 23456   M   W   H
> 34256           2
> 26543   -   -   2
> 43265   2   -   3
> 62534   -   -
> (32456) -   s
>
>
>
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