December 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
-34-1458-56-1238-34-1458-56-58,12
Leadhead
f 14263857
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
December Surprise Major
Method below
December Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BD
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
18
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
Mon 6 Dec 1976 First peal on towerbells December Surprise Major at Pendlebury by the Lancashire Association at Pendlebury
Thu 4 Dec 1986 First peal on handbells December Surprise Major by the Hereford Diocesan Guild at Beckington, Hereford, Herefords