Grantham 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
34-36.14-12-36-34-56,12
Leadhead
142563
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Carlisle Surprise Minor
Method below
Leasowe Delight Minor
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
3
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)
♫ 30
Performances
Date Type Details
Fri 16 Feb 1962 First inclusion in a peal on towerbells 5040 Spliced Surprise Minor (60m) by the Essex Association at All Saints, Stisted, Essex, conducted by Howard W Egglestone
Wed 14 Sept 1966 First peal on towerbells Grantham Surprise Minor at Barkston by the Society of Sherwood Youth at Barkston
Sat 5 Oct 1991 LongLength on towerbells 18720 Surprise Minor (26m) by the Salisbury Diocesan Guild at St Leonard, Marston Bigot, Somerset, conducted by Donald B Carter
Fri 5 Oct 2001 First inclusion in a peal on handbells 5040 Spliced Surprise Minor (57m) by the Middlesex County Association & London Diocesan Guild at 17 College Cross, Islington, Greater London, conducted by Richard A Pearce
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
Sat 2 Jul 2016 LongLength on towerbells 10080 Spliced Treble Dodging Minor by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Paul, Birmingham, West Midlands
Fri 18 Jun 2021 LongLength on handbells 30240 Spliced Treble Dodging Minor (212m) by the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths at 26 Redlands Road, Reading, Berkshire, conducted by Jack E Page