Alton Surprise Major

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
-34-14-12-38-14-1258-14-58,12
Leadhead
f 14263857
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Westminster Surprise Major
Method below
Jubilee Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BDKd
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
2
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
Sat 14 Nov 1970 First peal on towerbells 5056 Alton Surprise Major by the Winchester & Portsmouth Diocesan Guild at St Lawrence, Alton, Hampshire, conducted by R Roger Savory (Guild Master)
Tue 1 Jan 1980 Peal on towerbells 5056 Spliced Surprise Major (9m) by the Winchester & Portsmouth Diocesan Guild at S John Bapt, New Arlesford, Hampshire
Sat 5 Feb 1983 Peal on towerbells Alton Surprise Major at St Lawrence, Alton, Hants by the Winchester and Portsmouth Diocesan Guild at St Lawrence, Alton, Hants