Primrose Surprise Major

also known as Ringer's Surprise pre 20C
Blue Line
Properties
Changes
  • Adjacent
  • Identity
  • Jump
  • Static
  • Dynamic
  • Cross
  • Penultimate
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
-38-14-1258-36-14-58-16-78,18
Leadhead
g 13527486
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Primrose Surprise Major
Method below
Cambridge Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BDEe
Accepted extension path
EP3-1BC/1DE , EP4-2/7:4:1/5:4:1
Compositions designed for this method
97
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)
♫ 61
Performances
Date Type Details
Sat 23 Apr 1932 First peal on towerbells Primrose Surprise Major at Edenham by the Lincoln Diocesan Guild at Edenham
Mon 6 Oct 2003 First peal on handbells Primrose Surprise Major by the Leicester Diocesan Guild at Barrow-on-Soar, Leics