Derby 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
-38-14-58-16-12-38-56-18,12
Leadhead
c 17856342
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Cambridge Surprise Major
Method below
Derby Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BDc
Accepted extension path
EP3-1AB/1FG , EP4-2/7:4:1/9:4:1
Compositions designed for this method
11
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)
♫ 64
Performances
Date Type Details
Sat 16 Sept 1950 First peal on towerbells Derby Surprise Major at Crayford by the Kent County Association at Crayford
Mon 30 Sept 1991 First peal on handbells Derby Surprise Major by the Oxford Diocesan Guild at Calcot, Berks