Malmesbury 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
-38-14-1258-16-12-38-34-38,12
Leadhead
f 14263857
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Cambridge Surprise Major
Method below
Rotherfield Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BD
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)
♫ 59
Performances
Date Type Details
Sat 6 Aug 1966 First inclusion in a peal on towerbells 5080 Spliced Surprise Major (80m) by the Gloucester & Bristol Diocesan Association at St George, Bristol, Bristol, conducted by Anthony R Peake
Sat 8 Apr 1967 First peal on towerbells Malmesbury Surprise Major at Malmesbury by the Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association at Malmesbury
Wed 13 Jul 1988 First peal on handbells Malmesbury Surprise Major by the Middlesex County Association and London Diocesan Guild at Imperial College (Huxley Building), Knightsbridge, Middx