Superlative 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
-36-14-58-36-14-58-36-78,12
Leadhead
b 15738264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Superlative Surprise Major
Method below
Superlative Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Ed
Accepted extension path
EP3-3ABCD/3FGHI , EP4-4/9:8:3/9:8:3
Compositions designed for this method
4075
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
Mon 5 Nov 1821 First peal on towerbells Superlative Surprise Major at St Peter, Huddersfield at St Peter, Huddersfield
Wed 26 Jun 1901 First peal on handbells Superlative Surprise Major by the Ancient Society of College Youths at Stratford New Town, Essex
Sat 6 May 1922 LongLength on towerbells 10400 Real Double Superlative Surprise Major by the Midland Counties Association at Bell Foundry Tower, Loughborough, Leicestershire, conducted by Frederick H Dexter
Sat 29 Jan 1927 LongLength on towerbells 11232 Superlative Surprise Major by the Lancashire Association at St Peter, Bolton, Lancashire, conducted by Edward Jenkins
Mon 15 Apr 1963 LongLength on towerbells 11552 Superlative Surprise Major by the Chester Diocesan Guild at St Peter, Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, conducted by Robert B Smith
Sat 13 Sept 1969 LongLength on towerbells 16128 Superlative Surprise Major by the Chester Diocesan Guild at Bell Foundry Tower, Loughborough, Leicestershire, conducted by Brian J Woodruffe
Mon 26 Dec 1994 LongLength on towerbells 10144 Superlative Surprise Major by the Sussex County Association at St John the Baptist, Crawley, West Sussex, conducted by Simon M Alford
Sun 9 Mar 2008 LongLength on towerbells 11200 Superlative Surprise Major by the Bath & Wells Diocesan Association at Pig-le-Tower, Marston Bigot, Somerset, conducted by Brian J Woodruffe
Sat 5 Oct 2013 LongLength on towerbells 18432 Superlative Surprise Major by the Saint James' Guild at St James Garlickhythe, City of London, conducted by David C Brown
Tue 28 Apr 2020 First inclusion in a quarter peal on keyboards 1280 Spliced Surprise Major (8m) at Great Hockham, Reach & Norwich, Ringing Room, conducted by David C Brown
Wed 10 Jun 2020 First quarter peal on keyboards 1344 Superlative Surprise Major at Ringing Room, UK, conducted by David L Thomas (Abingdon, Oxon)