April 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
-38-14-58-1238-12-1258-14-18,12
Leadhead
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Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Codicote Surprise Major
Method below
April Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BDce
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
31
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)
♫ 60
Performances
Date Type Details
Mon 5 Apr 1976 First peal on towerbells April Surprise Major at Sacred Trinity, Salford by the Lancashire Association at Sacred Trinity, Salford
Sun 6 Apr 1986 First peal on handbells April Surprise Major by the Hereford Diocesan Guild at The Grange, Llandenny, Powys