Doncaster 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
-38-14-58-16-14-38-34-18,18
Leadhead
l 16482735
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Primrose Surprise Major
Method below
Rutland Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Bace
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
33
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
Mon 19 Sept 1949 First peal on towerbells Doncaster Surprise Major at Conisbrough by the Yorkshire Association at Conisbrough
Thu 20 Mar 2014 First inclusion in a quarter peal on handbells 1280 Spliced Surprise Major (12m) at 64 Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter, Devon, conducted by Tim Bayton