Purbeck 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
-36-14-1258-1236-14-58-36-78,12
Leadhead
b 15738264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Superlative Surprise Major
Method below
Purbeck Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Ed
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
8
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)
♫ 74
Performances
Date Type Details
Sat 16 Jul 1938 First inclusion in a peal on towerbells 5040 Spliced Minor (84m) by the Chester Diocesan Guild at St Mary the Virgin, Disley, Cheshire, conducted by C Kenneth Lewis
Mon 26 Aug 1963 First peal on towerbells Purbeck Surprise Major at Bellfoundry, Loughborough by the Leicester Diocesan Guild at Bellfoundry, Loughborough
Thu 13 May 2021 First quarter peal on keyboards 1280 Purbeck Surprise Major by the The Bellerophons at Ringing Room, UK, conducted by Richard A Wolfgang (Eastwood)