Caithness Surprise Minor

also known as Clyde Surprise pre 1962
Blue Line
Properties
Changes
  • Adjacent
  • Identity
  • Jump
  • Static
  • Dynamic
  • Cross
  • Penultimate
Hunt bells
  • Principle
  • Hunter
    • One
    • Multiple
    • All
Working bell cycles
  • Monocyclic
  • Isocyclic
  • Differential
Hunter classes
  • Plain
    • Place
    • Bob
    • Single
  • Treble Dodging
    • Treble Bob
    • Delight
    • Surprise
  • Alliance
  • Treble Place
  • 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
-36-14-12-1236-34-36,12
Leadhead
e 164523
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Cambridge Surprise Minor
Method below
Caithness Surprise Minor
FCH Groups
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
6
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)
♫ 29
Performances
Date Type Details
Fri 3 Jul 1959 First peal on towerbells Caithness Surprise Minor at Brentford by the Middlesex County Association and London Diocesan Guild at Brentford
Sun 31 Oct 1993 First peal on handbells Caithness Surprise Minor at Newmarket, Suffolk