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  • ** [[Plain Bob Doubles|Plain Bob]] * [[Stage|Major]]
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  • ...dge Surprise Major || >=5000 changes<br>Tenors together<br>Round blocks<br>Bob = 14, Single = 1234 || 9,997 compositions<br>255,138 rotations || 9 days<br ...ge Surprise Major || >=5000 changes<br>Tenors together<br>Snap finishes<br>Bob = 14, Single = 1234 || 15,416 compositions || 13 days<br>PC<br>SMC32||1998
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  • ...tives of the [[Project Pickled Egg]] project is to identify Treble Dodging Major methods that are musical in their plain course and can be rung to musical c |637||Double Dublin Surprise||1195||Double Norwich Court Bob
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  • ...lows ... handstroke point ... hunt wrong 3 blows ... dodge wrong (none for Major, once for Royal, twice for Maximus, thrice for 14 and four times for 16) .. ...u find yourself trapped on the front or back with the treble, ring Bristol Major: really it's just treble-bobbing on four.
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  • ...ed a comprehensive Collection of Universal Compositions for treble-dodging Major methods. 5056 TD Major (FCHs BDKabcdefXYZ)
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  • ===[https://complib.org/method/20166 ''London Surprise Major'']=== The merits of London and its role in learning Surprise Major have been discussed at length in the consultations preceding this. As with
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  • This is easier to see in Plain Methods, especially Plain Bob & Little Bob, but is also there to see in some more complicated methods like Kent & York The basic Plain Bob coursing order is (for minor) 53246; quite simply put, this is the order in
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  • ...sed as a learning pathway for 50 years. There is great variety in Surprise Major ringing, without just making methods more difficult, and the Standard 8 har ...rt, learning a Surprise Major method without first having rung Kent Treble Bob really is making life difficult for yourself. Kent may not be the stuff of
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  • ===[https://complib.org/method/17984 ''Cornwall Surprise Major'']=== ...ridge and Yorkshire are in the current Standard 8 and are the two Surprise Major methods most ringers learn first. Yorkshire made it into the larder on meri
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  • ...do you know a method, and how much do you know about it? Bristol Surprise Major is probably the most popular and admired method, so what is there to know? | Bristol Surprise Major|| the '''Title''' of the method; by combining name, class and stage, it is
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  • *for Little Bob Major, the extent is: 4 x 7! = 4 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 20,160 rows
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  • ==Method Splicing Part II - Major Methods== ...text has been transcribed from pages 34 to 38 of Method Splicing Part II - Major Methods by Giles B Thompson, 1968, with minor corrections.
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  • ===[https://complib.org/method/24457 ''Cooktown Orchid Delight Major'']=== ...3-4, or 3-4 to 5-6, not including a bell leading or lying behind. A Treble Bob method doesn’t have internal places made at any cross section, a Surprise
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  • ...(There are just 76 out of nearly 6000 Surprise Major methods without Plain Bob lead ends.) ...idge has a first lead end that is the same as the second lead end of Plain Bob and is a “b” group method. Methods with seconds-place lead ends are in
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  • ===[https://complib.org/method/19048 ''Bristol Surprise Major'']=== ...ents! The next to go in is neither radical nor surprising though – Bristol Major is the method equivalent of sugar.
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  • ===[https://complib.org/method/18970 ''Deva Surprise Major'']=== ...in themselves, but they are really only a gateway to the world of Surprise Major, which offers much more to discover and enjoy.
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  • ...s, e.g. in Phobos, after the second of the two fishtails bells just treble bob until the treble gets back to 5-6. ...nerating attractive compositions. You can count peals of Primrose Surprise Major (8ths place Cambridge) on the fingers of one hand!
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  • What is the falsest TD Major method? ...e six times as long as a standard Surprise Major method), a Treble Dodging Major method can have up to eight [[falseness groups]]. Having both T and U (the
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  • ===[https://complib.org/method/19756 ''Belfast Surprise Major'']=== ...place bells therefore come up in the order 8 6 4 2 3 5 7. When you call a Bob in an MX method, the bells in 5ths place and above dodge at the lead end an
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  • ===[https://complib.org/method/20901 ''Lancashire Surprise Major'']=== ...xists in many fields of endeavour, but when it comes to eponymous Surprise Major methods, the contest is a difficult one to judge. Yorkshire scores for long
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  • ===[https://complib.org/method/18034 ''Kenninghall Surprise Major'']=== ...t there is a huge gap between the standard methods on 8 and 12. A Surprise Major method that clearly demonstrates how a right place backwork can be married
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  • .... It will be noticed that once the four bells which are affected at a twin bob have been isolated the transposition function is always the same (1234 beco ...wing firstly how only five bells need be transposed, and secondly how twin bob pairs are transposed together.
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  • ...rise Major method than [https://complib.org/method/21124 ''Nimrod Surprise Major'']?” Earlier discussion had concluded that Project Pickled Egg would have ...ang onto and a lot of detail to learn. The fewer internal places in Treble Bob methods (by definition) means more movement, and this composition took it t
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  • ...fferent numbers of bells are:- 4 Minimus, 5 Doubles, 6 Minor, 7 Triples, 8 Major, 9 Caters, 10 Royal, 11 Cinques, 12 Maximus, 13 Sextuples, 14 Fourteen, 15 * Bob methods are all other Plain methods.
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  • ===[https://complib.org/method/25093 ''Mareham Delight Major'']=== ...ds is to wrong hunt four places to a fishtail (treble in 3-4), then treble bob back the way you came.
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  • For example, the first lead of a plain course of Bristol Surprise Major contains many musical characteristics as described below: ...63857 (group mx) and the three lead touch of Bristol produced by calling a bob at every leadend is perhaps a classic example of a short musical touch, as
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  • ===[https://complib.org/method/20055 ''Glasgow Surprise Major'']=== ...had a solid grounding in methods of different types. Although it has Plain Bob lead end order, defined as Group G, it doesn’t really feel like that beca
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  • == Major trends == ...band. This is borne out by the fact that classic methods such as Plain Bob Major, Grandsire and Stedman feature strongly in the popularity stakes over time,
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  • ...at it would be a set of core methods teaching ringers how to ring Surprise Major in a progressive way, with each additional method building on what has come I should say at this point who has been collaborating on this. The major contributions from the start have come from Don Morrison, Graham John, Alan
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  • ...andbells, through to firsts of Spliced S Major, Bristol S Royal and Little Bob Maximus. ...e with some relief to the organiser when the demonstrations of 8-Spliced S Major, Stedman Cinques, Bristol S Maximus and Kent & Oxford TB Sixteen all came r
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  • ...them elegantly produce extents based on in-course half-extents (with Plain Bob the argument is admittedly a bit more stretched and requires stitching toge ...those in the first. Whilst this has been used before (Double Eastern Bob Major, first rung in 1752, glides merrily along), it was employed to great effect
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  • ...cally, the conductor calls "Plain Hunt", but equally could say "one-twelve bob".
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  • ...I strongly suspect they would have satisfied [U] and [R] much as a peal of major does. [R], and either (on major or above) [U] or (on triples and
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  • .... Prior to the current decade, I'm struggling to think of a single spliced major composition that has significant musical, as opposed to historic or challen ...oard. Whilst 8-bell ringing is still predominately based on treble-dodging major, people are not so obsessed with surprise. Delight methods (and good delig
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  • ...bell ringers to discuss any topics ringing related. However, there is one major difference between this group and Bellringers; Anything Goes. There is litt ...her you are learning to handle a bell, ringing Call Changes, ringing Plain Bob or even Cambridge Max... then join the group!"
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  • ...the past five years that wasn’t Stedman or Grandsire. And that was Plain Bob. ...de, around 98% of 9-bell peals are either Stedman or Grandsire (with Plain Bob, Erin and Double Norwich making up nearly all the rest)
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  • ...00 Peals''' (from 1st to 1000th peal) in 3271 days by conducting Bristol S Major at [https://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=1061557 Thorverton, Devon] on ...handbell peal of [https://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=1133244 Plain Bob Minor] at the age of 17 on Thursday, 28 August 2008 less than 5 days after
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  • bob = 4 ...-treble extent can be achieved with precisely one “regular” treble-dodging major method – Disley Delight – as documented by Jonathan Deane in 1991. Mike
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  • ...different bobs in the same position could be used for this. A 10ths place bob 'out' turns the coursing order from the plain course 324 to the tittums sty The figures refer to the type of bob. O is an 'out' for the tenor, I is an 'in' for the 2nd. Ideal for handbells
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  • bob = 5 replacing 7 bob = 5 replacing 7
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  • ...of rung cinques peals. Throw in a very small smattering of Erin and Plain Bob, and that completes the show. There is nothing else happening at all. No n Round with a bob at 1.
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  • ...lows, whilst Brave New World eschewed both conventional symmetry and plain bob leadheads to launch a cyclic odyssey. ...impressive effect. Mark Davies has led the charge with “regular” (ie plain bob leadhead), coursing-dominated methods, including:
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