Nailstone Surprise Major

Blue Line
Properties
Changes
  • Adjacent
  • Identity
  • Jump
  • Static
  • Dynamic
  • Cross
  • Pure
  • Penultimate
  • Touching Places
Hunt bells
  • Principle
  • Hunter
    • One
    • Multiple
    • All
Working bell cycles
  • Monocyclic
  • Isocyclic
  • Differential
Hunter classes
  • Plain
    • Place
    • Bob
    • Single
  • Alliance
  • Treble Place
  • Treble Dodging
    • Treble Bob
    • Delight
    • Surprise
  • 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
-38-14-58-16-14-1258-36-78,12
Leadhead
b 15738264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Cambridge Surprise Major
Method below
Nailstone Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BLce
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
19
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
Sat 17 Dec 1960 First peal on towerbells Nailstone Surprise Major at Market Bosworth by the Leicester Diocesan Guild at Market Bosworth
Wed 4 May 1977 First inclusion in a peal on handbells 5056 Spliced Surprise Major (75m) by the Lancashire Association at 131 Shawclough Way, Rochdale, Lancashire, conducted by Marcus C W Sherwood
Mon 11 Apr 2016 First peal on handbells 5060 Nailstone Surprise Major by the Oxford Diocesan Guild at 15 Lytham End Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire, conducted by Bernard F L Groves
Fri 4 Mar 2022 First quarter peal on keyboards 1250 Nailstone Surprise Major by the The Bellerophons at Ringing Room, UK, conducted by Joseph A Sharp