Amsterdam 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
-38-14-58-16-14-1258-36.12.78,12
Leadhead
b 15738264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Cambridge Surprise Major
Method below
Amsterdam Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BLace
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
7
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)
♫ 61
Performances
Date Type Details
Fri 26 Jul 1963 First peal on towerbells Amsterdam Surprise Major at Measham by the Midland Counties Guild at Measham
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
Fri 25 Jun 2021 First quarter peal on keyboards 1278 Amsterdam Surprise Major by the The Bellerophons at Ringing Room, UK & USA, conducted by David B Wilson (Vancouver, WA)