Blunsdon Surprise Minor

also known as Shannon Surprise pre 1962
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
34-36.14-12-1236-34-36,12
Leadhead
f 142635
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Carlisle Surprise Minor
Method below
Caithness Surprise Minor
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
7
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)
♫ 25
Performances
Date Type Details
Sat 5 Mar 1960 First peal on towerbells Blunsdon Surprise Minor at Broad Blunsdon by the Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association at Broad Blunsdon
Tue 12 Oct 1999 First peal on handbells Blunsdon Surprise Minor by the Hertford County Association at St Albans, Herts
Fri 25 Jan 2008 LongLength on handbells 24480 Spliced Treble Dodging Minor (178m) by the Ancient Society of College Youths at 12 Victoria Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, conducted by Andrew J W Tibbetts
Sun 24 Jan 2021 First quarter peal on keyboards 1272 Blunsdon Surprise Minor at Colchester, Norwich & Great Hockham, Ringing Room, UK, conducted by David C Brown