Westminster Surprise Major

Blue Line
Properties
Changes
  • Adjacent
  • Identity
  • Jump
  • Static
  • Dynamic
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
-34-14-12-38-12-38-12-38,12
Leadhead
a 13527486
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Westminster Surprise Major
Method below
Wath Delight Major
FCH Groups
BD
Accepted extension path
EP3-1DE/3DE , EP4-2/5:4:4
Compositions designed for this method
19
Leads in course
7
Lead length
32
Plain course length
224
Hunt bells
1
Working bells
7
Stationary bells
0
Maximum blows in one place
2
Music score (default scheme)
♫ 72
Performances
Date Type Details
Wed 5 Nov 1975 First peal on towerbells Westminster Surprise Major at Highclere by the Oxford Diocesan Guild at Highclere
Tue 18 Aug 1981 First peal on handbells Westminster Surprise Major by the North American Guild at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, US