Islay 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
-36-14-58-36-14-1258-1236-78,12
Leadhead
b 15738264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Superlative Surprise Major
Method below
Islay Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Ead
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
None
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)
♫ 73
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
Sat 26 Oct 1963 First peal on towerbells Islay Surprise Major at Gressenhall by the Norwich Diocesan Association at Gressenhall
Wed 4 May 1977 First inclusion in a peal on handbells 5056 Spliced Surprise Major (75m) by the Lancashire Association at 131 Shawclough Way, Rochdale, Lancashire, conducted by Marcus C W Sherwood