Armstrong Surprise Minor

Blue Line
Properties
Changes
  • Adjacent
  • Identity
  • Jump
  • Static
  • Dynamic
  • Cross
  • Pure
  • Penultimate
  • Touching Places
Hunt bells
  • Principle
  • Hunter
    • One
    • Multiple
    • All
Working bell cycles
  • Monocyclic
  • Isocyclic
  • Differential
Hunter classes
  • Plain
    • Place
    • Bob
    • Single
  • Alliance
  • Treble Place
  • Treble Dodging
    • Treble Bob
    • Delight
    • Surprise
  • Hybrid
  • Little
Symmetry
  • Asymmetric
  • Palindromic
  • Double
  • Rotational
  • Offset
Leadheads
  • Plain Bob
  • Grandsire
  • Original
  • Cyclic
  • Rounds
Course properties
  • True plain course
  • True leads
  • Right place
  • Uneven parity
  • Layered
Place notation
-34-14-56-36-12-56,12
Leadhead
a 135264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Car-Colston Surprise Minor
Method below
Newstead Delight Minor
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
9
Leads in course
5
Lead length
24
Plain course length
120
Hunt bells
1
Working bells
5
Stationary bells
0
Maximum blows in one place
2
Music score (default scheme)
♫ 40
Performances
Date Type Details
Mon 1 Nov 1971 First inclusion in a peal on towerbells 5040 Spliced Surprise Minor (206m) by the Oxford Diocesan Guild at St Margaret, Hinton Waldrist, Oxfordshire, conducted by Timothy G Pett
Sun 20 Dec 1998 First inclusion in a quarter peal on handbells 1272 Spliced Surprise Minor (6m) at Reynards, Heathfield, Sussex, conducted by Alan D Pink
Wed 30 Dec 1998 First quarter peal on handbells 1272 Armstrong Surprise Minor at Reynards, Heathfield, Sussex, conducted by Alan D Pink
Wed 14 Mar 2001 First inclusion in a peal on handbells 5040 Spliced Surprise Minor (136m) by the Hertford County Association at 23 Gilpin Green, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, conducted by Bernard H Taylor
Wed 12 Jan 2005 LongLength on handbells 19440 Spliced Treble Dodging Minor (729m) by the Ancient Society of College Youths at 12 Victoria Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, conducted by Andrew J W Tibbetts
Wed 1 Jun 2005 LongLength on handbells 20880 Spliced Treble Dodging Minor (1053m) by the Ancient Society of College Youths at 12 Victoria Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, conducted by Andrew J W Tibbetts
Sat 30 Jan 2010 LongLength on handbells 10080 Spliced Treble Dodging Minor (676m) by the Iceni Society at 2 Pretyman Avenue, Bacton, Suffolk, conducted by Andrew J W Tibbetts
Tue 31 Mar 2015 First peal on towerbells 5040 Armstrong Surprise Minor by the Truro Diocesan Guild at St Michael and All Angels, St Michael Caerhays, Cornwall, conducted by David Ralls
Sat 8 Nov 2025 LongLength on handbells 25200 Spliced Treble Dodging Minor (210m) by the Ancient Society of College Youths at 53 Covent Garden, Willingham, Cambridgeshire, conducted by Henry J W Pipe