After ringing our quarter of Cambridge Royal with 3-4 unaffected, our next step was to ring a quarter of Cambridge Major, definitely not choosing a handbell-friendly composition. The idea was to give Peter a workout including as many positions as possible. If I remember correctly, Jonathan called this one:

1280 Cambridge Surprise Major

M B W H  23456
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  3      64523
-     -  35426
    - 3  23456
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Peter rang 3-4 and had most of the leads of all three positions. I rang 5-6 and found it reasonably friendly - a fair bit of coursing and then the final two courses in the home position.

The next week we lost a quarter of Cambridge Royal, this time with the calling sW sW 3H so that 3-4 would ring two courses in the 3-4 position followed by two courses in the coursing position. An unfortunate 3-way swap quite close to the end meant that it didn't come round, but we tried again yesterday and succeeded. After that we had a go at Yorkshire Royal, and managed half a course.

Meanwhile the Edinburgh band rang its first peal of surprise major without outside help: 

Scottish Association
Edinburgh, Midlothian
27 House o' Hill Crescent
Saturday, 22 February 2020 in 2h 29 (11)
5088 Yorkshire Surprise Major
Composed by J S Warboys
1-2 Barbara J Bell
3-4 James W Holdsworth (C)
5-6 Susannah M Ewens
7-8 Ian P Bell
The first peal of Surprise on handbells by a resident Edinburgh band.