Johannesburg 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
-38-14-58-16-14-1258-1236-78,12
Leadhead
b 15738264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Cambridge Surprise Major
Method below
Johannesburg Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Bace
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
61
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)
♫ 63
Performances
Date Type Details
Thu 6 Jun 1963 First peal on towerbells Johannesburg Surprise Major at St Ebbe, Oxford by the Oxford Diocesan Guild at St Ebbe, Oxford
Tue 23 May 2017 First peal on handbells 5058 Johannesburg Surprise Major by the Hereford Diocesan Guild at 4 Bannutree Cottages, Bridstow, Herefordshire, conducted by Daniel Jones