Queen Mary Surprise Minor

also known as Old Primrose Surprise pre 20C
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
-36-14-12-36-14-36,16
Leadhead
165243
Divisions
None
Default calls
Far
Method above
Primrose Surprise Minor
Method below
Cunecastre Surprise Minor
FCH Groups
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
13
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)
♫ 13
Performances
Date Type Details
Tue 27 Jul 1976 First peal on towerbells Queen Mary Surprise Minor at Milton by the Oxford Diocesan Guild at Milton
Tue 9 Jul 1996 First peal on handbells Queen Mary Surprise Minor by the Norwich Diocesan Association at Swardeston, Norfolk
Thu 11 Jun 2020 First inclusion in a quarter peal on keyboards 1320 Spliced Surprise Minor (6m) at Thorrington, Wickford & Great Hockham, Ringing Room, conducted by Simon A Rudd