Hello Philip.<div><br></div><div>I seem to be having trouble sending messages to Ringing Theory. I've emailed Camp but he hasn't responded. I know there is an issue with gmail/googlemail adddress, but I've now tried with both addresses registered and still not got anywhere. Anyway, I've recently tried to send two messages. One if below. The other is less interesting...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>D<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Hull</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidghull@googlemail.com">davidghull@googlemail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:36 PM<br>Subject: Compositions of the decade - Royal<br>To: <a href="mailto:ringing-theory@bellringers.net">ringing-theory@bellringers.net</a><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Firstly, let me congratulate Philip on this excellent series of articles; they are both incisive and a good read.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just a small point, in the typical DGH pedantic vein, of historical accuracy:</div>
<div><br></div><div>PJE:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">3) Bespoke cyclic royal compositions - David Pipe - April 2003 / October 2003<br>
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David Pipe's 9-part and 10-part spliced royal compositions are a sort of contraction of his classic maximus compositions on a similar plan.<br>
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The methods in the royal peals - named after James Bond villains - are all custom-designed to yield a feast of music in the leads they appear in the composition. The new methods used, such as Goldfinger, are also intrinsically very attractive.<br>
<br> All in all, two finely crafted examples. (David Hull also has a similar, later composition containing methods with "opposite" pivot bells)<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div>The 9-part Hull composition was actually composed and rung first, based on David Pipe's ideas from his Maximus compositions. David (Pipe) then produced his own take on this plan, increasing the roll-up count in the process, as well as a 10-part, both of which were rung soon after. The Hull 10-part has yet to receive an outing (and would probably be recomposed from scratch if I ever got around to it).<div>
<br></div><div>One other point that Philip doesn't mention and which I think is worthy of note is another DJP idea, that of using non-plain bob lead-head methods in the "padding" to allow you to ring musical leads without the bells in the plain course position but also without the need to have some messy rows in the middle of the lead to get the bells into the right order for a "proper" half-lead. David has used this in some of his more recent compositions rung on handbells, and Fulford and Acomb in the composition below also use this feature.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div> 5004 8 methods Spliced Royal</div><div> David G Hull</div><div><br></div><div> 234567890 Skeldergate Bridge Little Alliance</div><div> - 453028967 Fulford Delight </div><div>
524390786 Acomb Delight </div><div> - 345028967 Mulberry Hall Little Alliance </div><div> - 534028967 London No.3 Surprise </div><div> 452390786 Horsleydown Surprise </div>
<div> 305846279 Sgurr Differential Surprise </div><div> 249573608 Copmanthorpe Delight </div><div> 083657492 Copmanthorpe Delight </div><div> 927465830 Sgurr Differential Surprise </div>
<div> 860739524 Horsleydown Surprise </div><div> 796284053 London No.3 Surprise </div><div> - 867902345 Mulberry Hall Little Alliance </div><div> - 786902345 Acomb Delight </div>
<div> 679284053 Fulford Delight </div><div> - 678902345 </div><div><br></div><div>9 part</div><div><br></div><div>720 each Acomb Delight, Copmanthorpe Delight, Fulford Delight, </div>
<div>Horsleydown Surprise, London No.3 Surprise, Sgurr Differential Surprise;</div><div>504 Mulberry Hall Little Alliance; </div><div>180 Skeldergate Bridge Little Alliance;</div><div>125 changes of method, all the work.</div>
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<div><br></div><div>DGH</div>-- <br>David G Hull<br>01757 268620 / 01904 325476 / 07884 188965<br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>David G Hull<br>01757 268620 / 01904 325476 / 07884 188965<br>
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