[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Automated extent royal?



Hello out there in change ringing land! Whoever suggested Cafe Jaffa for lunch today, thank you, it was wonderful!

Has anyone seen this before?: http://musik.antville.org/20040403/

I've followed for a few years the Clock of the Long Now project ( http://www.longnow.org/ ), a project to create a clock that will operate successfully for 10,000 years -- a kind of monument to slow, patient, and long-term thinking. Part of the final design is currently scheduled to have a ten-bell chime. Since 10! is 3,628,800 the idea was to have a unique chime for every day for 10,000 years.

Some time later, after ringing was introduced to it, my brain catches up with me...

Could this be (maybe only if arranged properly) an *extent royal*, i.e., a complete set of changes rung over the 10,000 year time-frame, with one row being rung each day? From what I've read, this would be a feat never otherwise attempted (extent major seems to be the longest extent actually achieved).

Of course, since it's automated, it doesn't conform to the rules of the guild and may be irrelevant... but I thought people might be amused nonetheless.

--Allen