[r-t] New methods

Fri Aug 3 21:47:16 UTC 2018

Dear all,

Here is a selection of unrung methods which might be of interest to the
ringing theory crowd. Building methods is my hobby rather than composing
peals (or rather, I'm not knowledgeable enough!), so I can't do much more
with them by myself. Some of them are very nice indeed, some maybe less so.
I've said a little about the thoughts behind each when I made them, in case
that's interesting to anyone. I've also included the monikers I've given
them — if they do get rung it'd be nice to see them with these names, but
it's not important. I'd be happy just to know that they were being rung in
the first place.

Gabriel S12: m &-3T-14.5T-12.3T.14-7T.38.16-9T.70.18-18.9T-18-1T,1T

Whereas Bristol has one set of points on the back, and Zanussi and Ariel
have two, this method was my attempt to make one with three. The start
breaks from tradition a bit, since the 3 gets involved in the back work a
bit rather than stay put with the 4. This method has a very musical plain
course thanks to large amount of coursing involved, and one other nice
feature which itshares with Avon is that a coursing 'group' work together
on the front, meaning that you naturally get runs in tittums coursing
orders. Oh, and no in-course FCHs to boot! As sample composition is AGR's
5040 Avon no.8, in which it out-performs the original method quite handily:
https://complib.org/composition/31705?substitutedmethodid=32397&methodaccesskey=a137aba52d65b16cc3ccd55353d8626231e2d19d

As nice as this one is, you can imagine my delight when I realised that the
first quarter-lead can be turned into a perfect double method with the same
falseness as the original. Slightly less music here, but still pretty
lovely nonetheless.

Raziel S12: k2 &-3T-14.5T-12.3T.14-7T.30.16-9T.10.ET-18.9T-10-1T,1T

Both of these methods extend upwards indefinitely. They also 'extend'
downwards to Royal, although Gabriel becomes a differential at this point
due to its lead end. This doesn't happen to Raziel though.

Clotted Cream Caters: &5.1.9.7.1.589.1.569.1.5.1.5,9

My attempt at an interesting principle focusing on coursing music, with
section lengths of 24. I haven't managed to find a way of composing for it
yet though, which is unfortunate. Maybe someone smarter than me can...!
This also extends down to Triples and indefinitely upwards: the Cinques has
notation &7.1.E.9.1.70E.1.78E.1.7.1.7.1.7,E.

Clotted Cream has Original section ends, but it also has a cyclic rotation
of back-rounds for its half-section handstroke....which means that by
giving it glide-reflection symmetry, you get a cyclic double principle!
This one wasn't an accident though, since I had planned it when I built
Clotted Cream.

Double Cream Cyclic
Caters: 5.1.9.7.1.589.1.569.1.5.1.5.9.1.3.9.125.9.145.9.5.9

Like its parent, this also extends indefinitely, but has sections of 22
changes instead.

Calliope S12: g &-3T-14-12.5T.16.34-7T.58.16-9T.70.18-18.9T-18-1T,1T

Admittedly this is not one of mine, we have PJE in a message to this list
in the 2000s to thank for that, if I remember correctly. Also, he was
talking about the contraction of this method to Royal. I've tried to get
peals of both of these rung, but after several catastrophes I gave it up as
a bad job. The real reason I mention this is because, again, I realised it
can be made double (can you tell I like double methods yet?):

Cherub S12: m &-3T-14-12.5T.16.34-7T.58.16-90.7T.18.ET-9T-10-1T,1T

This is extremely musical in the plain course, beating out everything else
I could come up with. It's also annoyingly false, with FCHs of D/BDa2. The
in-course falseness can be got rid of, though:

Cherub S12 (new limited
edition): -3T-14.12-5T.16.34-7T.58.16-90.7T.18-ET.9T-10-1T,1T

Now this has to be a fashionable method: a double surprise maximus method
with oodles of runs, no in-course falseness, places in 11-12 and three
consecutive blows...I'm astonished it's not been rung before. Get in there
quick!

This next one is more for fun than anything good to ring, but I had a go at
finding the most logical extension path for Deva S8. Downwards, it
contracts to a rather ugly Delight Minor method:

Deva D6: h &-56-14.56-56.16-12-16,16

Upwards, it extends indefinitely in the following way:

Deva S10: j1 &-50-14.50-50.36-14-58-36-70-18-10,10

Deva S12: j2 &-5T-14.5T-5T.36-14-58-36-70-18-9T-10-1T,1T

Deva S14: j3 &-5B-14.5B-5B.36-14-58-36-70-18-9T-10-EB-1T-1B,1B

You won't catch me trying to ring it any time soon though — it quickly
loses all the merits of the original method on higher numbers.

The next method is one I made when attempting to 'improve' on the Pipe
Classic. From anecdotal evidence, people just don't like ringing Maypole,
although I rather like it I have to say. Anyway, it's objectively worse
than it might be in the comp because it gets rid of the Bristol wrong
dodges, which happens to be where all the music is! To try and alleviate
both these points, here's an Alliance Maximus method which is to Double
Coslany what Bristol is to Maypole (or something)

Double Bletchley Alliance Maximus: j
&-14.5T.36.14-7T.58.16-9T.70.18.9T-1T,1T

I think I chose the name because Bletchley is about halfway geographically
between Bristol and Coslany, but I could be making it up, since it was a
while ago. Unfortunately it's a little shorter than Maypole, which means
you have to make adjustments elsewhere in the composition to get back up to
peal length. But then, since you're changing things up anyway, this
mightn't be such a bad thing.

Saturday Cinques: &3.14E.3.1.E,E

A fun little Cinques principle which is based on Bristol points. Original
section ends, 10 changes a section. Might come in handy on a rainy day!
Probably extends in both directions, haven't bothered to check.

A silly one next: definitely never going to be rung, but I remember seeing
an old message from years ago where someone was asking about rare FCHs.
This is my response to that message:

Double U Alliance 8: k &-145678-125678-123678-123478-123458-18,18

FCH: U

Another silly one, although much more likely to be rung, is this double
Plain Bob method which has a lot of fishtails in it. I'd like to see a
surprise band tackle this for fun!

Fisherman's Friend Bob Maximus: m &-14-36.7T.58.16.70-9T-1T,1T

I have loads more, but I'll finish with an alternative to Ariel S12 which
gets the front bells in coursing order more quickly for some better music
there, while still keeping the overall structure the same.

Ursula D12: k1 &-3T-14.5T.12-1T-12-5T.16-9T.70.18-18.9T.18-18.ET,1T

Anyway, hopefully some of these will be of interest to somebody. Any
comments welcome!

Best wishes,

Pip
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