Bristol Surprise Major, Royal and Maximus

A video about the classic method Bristol, on the 120th anniversary of the first peal of Bristol Surprise Major.

[@grandsirecaters82]

Fascinating insight into the historical development of Bristol. I'm too long in the tooth to make much practical use of the technicalities, but it does explain to me why I seem to have more trouble with royal than on other numbers. The only issue with the presentation is the speech->text which is so hilarious it distracts from your excellent talk 😂

[@davros_adl8155]

So in short, Bristol extends by grouping work together and padding the empty space with dodges?

[@michaelwoolley7034]

"Extends" is a controversial term in ringing which can lead not only to letter rows a century ago but internet pile-ons today. But by 1 definition, correct