Huge congratulations to these members of the Channel Islands Branch of the SDGR who achieved the longest length of singles ever rung with 10080 Stedman Singles in 4 hours and 37 minutes on 24th July 2024 at St Peter Port, Guernsey (coincidentally Jack Pease’s Tower of the Month for September).
For those unfamiliar with the delights of Stedman Singles, it is rung on 3 bells and consists of repeated extents of the Stedman slow and quick frontwork. When you have only three bells the extent (ie every possible combination included once and once only) is completed after only six blows and there are just two different ways of completing an extent. The genius of Stedman is that he combined these two extents and made it extendible by having a bell leaving this 3 bell work and another taking its place at the end of each ‘six’. Of course, in singles (so called because only a single pair swap while the other makes a place at each row) you can’t leave so the entire method consists of alternating slow and quick sixes.
10080 Stedman Singles
- Duncan Loweth
- Joseph Blake
- Donny Brock (C)
- First long length of singles ever rung (ie longer than 5040)
- Longest length of singles ever rung
- First blows in method: 2
- First long length on the bells, on the island and by a Channel Islands band
- First long length for all
Umpires: Benjy Mallard, Will Le Ray, Jennifer Hill, Rebecca Harrison
AW
