Somerset 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
-38-14-1256-16-34-38-14-38,12
Leadhead
c 17856342
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Uxbridge Surprise Major
Method below
Somerset Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Bad
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
11
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)
♫ 79
Performances
Date Type Details
Sat 4 Feb 1950 First peal on towerbells Somerset Surprise Major at St Mary, Kingswinford by the St Martin's Guild for the Diocese of Birmingham at St Mary, Kingswinford
Tue 22 Oct 1991 First peal on handbells Somerset Surprise Major by the Hereford Diocesan Guild at Beckington, Hereford, Herefords