Tavistock Surprise Major

Blue Line
Properties
Changes
  • Adjacent
  • Identity
  • Jump
  • Static
  • Dynamic
  • Cross
  • Penultimate
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
-34-16-56-38-14-58-16-78,18
Leadhead
j 17856342
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Tavistock Surprise Major
Method below
Tavistock Surprise Major
FCH Groups
DadY
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
335
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)
♫ 51
Performances
Date Type Details
Mon 31 Oct 1949 First peal on towerbells Tavistock Surprise Major at Conisbrough by the Yorkshire Association at Conisbrough
Mon 30 Jun 1997 First peal on handbells Tavistock Surprise Major by the Middlesex County Association and London Diocesan Guild at Imperial College (Huxley Building), Knightsbridge, Middx
Wed 27 May 2020 First inclusion in a quarter peal on keyboards 1504 Spliced Surprise Major (23m) at Bosham & Portsmouth, Ringing Room, West Sussex & Hampshire, conducted by Benjamin J Carey