Fordham 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
-38-14-1258-36-14-38-34-18,12
Leadhead
f 14263857
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Cambridge Surprise Major
Method below
Fordham Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BDe
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
44
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)
♫ 66
Performances
Date Type Details
Sat 18 Dec 1954 First peal on towerbells Fordham Surprise Major at Ickleton by the Ely Diocesan Association at Ickleton
Tue 26 Nov 1963 First peal on handbells Fordham Surprise Major by the Leicester Diocesan Guild at The Wayside, Leicester, Leics