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<P>It would be very easy, when performing a 'cold review' of such a composition, to nitpick</P>
<P>at the method choice, but the sheer difficulty involved in producing it needs to be taken</P>
<P>into account. Perhaps such a composition might just exist leaning towards more standard </P>
<P>methods, but this would be in the realms of someone with some very powerful software and/or </P>
<P>a lot of time.</P>
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<P>I'll put my composition on here in September when it's been attempted, after which point anyone </P>
<P>who's so inclined can have a go at it.</P>
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<P>How about an 8 part palindromic composition of spliced, including the treble, to obtain all 480 4-bell runs? </P>
<P>That really would be euphoria. Here's a template to start us off.....</P>
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<P><FONT face="Courier New">x 8 </FONT></P>
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<P>Cheers</P>
<P>Rob</P>
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<P>>Thank you very much for your comments and analysis Philip.<BR><BR>>Firstly, before I take any false credit, I'd like to point out that I didn't<BR>>compose the whole thing without any help from a computer. I did make quite<BR>>heavy use of a proving program to try out ideas as they came to me. I just<BR>>meant that I used nothing more powerful than a proving program eg no<BR>>generating software ect. And I certainly did use up a lot of squared paper!<BR><BR>>It is indeed true that unfortunately there is a balance between musicality<BR>>and familiarity. I think that in order to produce a peal of 23-spliced with<BR>>a very high run count it is necessary to largely invent the methods<BR>>specially for the purpose. I always set out with the intention to invent<BR>>lots of the methods specially for the composition and cannot imagine trying<BR>>to produce such a thing without doing so.<BR><BR>>One final thing. In
order to try and "raise the bar" slightly higher I came<BR>>up with a few alternatives to some of the new methods in my 23 to try and<BR>>increase diversity and the number of wrong place backworks whilst<BR>>maintaining the maximum run count. (N.B. some of the following substitutions<BR>>must be made simultaneously in order to ensure truth). Refering the<BR>>numbering given in the composition replace with each of the following:<BR><BR>>Method-2: l 36.5.36.4-2-6-2-3-36-3<BR>>Method-6: e 5-5.4.5-5.6-4-45-2-3<BR>>Method-7: k -34.5.4-25-36-4-5-2-3<BR>>Method-10: e 345-34.1-56-1.34.2-3-36-1<BR>>Method-16: j -3-4-2-6-2-45-4-7<BR>>Method-18: g 34.5.36.4-56-1-2-3.4.56-7<BR><BR>>Cheers,<BR>>Alan<BR></P>
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