Otley 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
-38-14-12-38.14-14.58.14.36.14.58,12
Leadhead
f 14263857
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
York Surprise Major
Method below
Otley Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BDKZ
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
22
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)
♫ 71
Performances
Date Type Details
Mon 12 Apr 1937 First peal on towerbells Otley Surprise Major at Helmingham by the Suffolk Guild at Helmingham
Sun 27 Sept 2020 First inclusion in a peal on handbells 5152 Spliced Surprise Major (23m) by the Winchester & Portsmouth Diocesan Guild at Little Creed Cottage, Green Lane, Bosham, West Sussex, conducted by Benjamin J Carey