Non-adjacent 4-spliced

Four interesting double methods can be spliced together to produce a challenging composition.

Trumpington, where the peal was attempted.

When trying to come up with new major methods, I thought about what were the most musical existing methods, and what was it that made them good. In my opinion, three of the best major methods are:

Plain Bob             -18-18-18-18 le 12
Double Norwich CB Bob -14-36-58-18 le 18
Bristol Surprise      -5-4.5-5.36.4-4.5-4-1 le18

These methods are double, and have no adjacent places in the notation (with the exception of the plain bob lead-head notation). I then wondered how many double treble-dodging major methods existed with absolutely no adjacent places, as well as regular lead-heads and no more than two consecutive blows in any place. The answer turned out to be four: Bristol Surprise, an unrung delight, an unrung treble-bob and an unrung surprise method.

Unnamed D:  j -36-18-58-36-14-18-36-18
Unnamed S:  j 36.58-14-58-36-14-58-14.36.18
Unnamed TB: k 36.58-18-58-18-14-18-14.36.18

The unrung methods were, perhaps not surprisingly, a bit bizarre. The delight is right-place, and has 11 plain-hunts from front-to-back or back-to-front in the plain course. The methods can be viewed together in a .pdf file available here.

I was keen to ring a peal, but getting a composition was a big problem. Philip Saddleton put me in touch with Graham John, who managed to produce the following tenors-together one part:

5024 4-Spliced Surprise Major
by Graham A C John

 23456  M  B  W  H
 42356           -  B,
 63254  -        -  BSS,DDBSB,
 36452     -  -  2  BT,T,SSB,DD,
(53624) -  2        BB,BDBD,TBT,
 46325  -        -  SSD,SSBSB,
 64523     -  -  2  BT,DSDDSD,DSDD,B,
 26435  -  2        BSD,BBTBD,TBT,T
 54632  -        -  BSS,BSBSS,
 45236     -  -  2  TB,T,BDD,DS,
 34562  -  2        BSD,T,TBT,T
 25463  -        -  BB,BDBDS,
 62534     -     2  D,TB,B,
 43526  2  -  2  -  BSD,SS,T,BBB,DS,TTT,
 43265     -     -  BT,TB,
 52364  -        -  BB,TTB,
(65243) -  2        SDB,T,DBDBD,
 32546  -        -  SB,TTB,
 62345     -  -     D,T,SS
(24653) 2     2     BSD,SD,TT,DS,
(56342) -     -     T,SDSDS,
 23645  -        -  T,TTB,
 23456     -     -  D,TB,

Contains 1600 Bristol; 1152 Unnamed D (D),
Unnamed S (S); 1120 Unnamed TB (T) 
114 com; atw; 75 crus.

The peal was rung at Trumpington, at the third attempt. The details can be seen here.