Dark Skies 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
-38-14-1258-36-34-1458-34-18,12
Leadhead
e 16482735
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Cambridge Surprise Major
Method below
Dark Skies Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BDa
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
1
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
Wed 15 Jan 1997 First peal on handbells Dark Skies Surprise Major by the Kent County Association at Minet House, Whitechapel, Middx
Tue 6 May 2014 First peal on towerbells 5152 Dark Skies Surprise Major by the Yorkshire Association at St Anne's Cathedral (R C), Leeds, West Yorkshire, conducted by C Barrie Dove