Gainsborough 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
-38-14-58-16-14-58-1236-78,12
Leadhead
b 15738264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Cambridge Surprise Major
Method below
Gainsborough 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)
♫ 60
Performances
Date Type Details
Wed 14 Jul 1954 First peal on towerbells Gainsborough Surprise Major at Helmingham by the Suffolk Guild at Helmingham
Sun 17 Apr 2016 First peal on handbells 5088 Gainsborough Surprise Major by the Lincoln Diocesan Guild at The Vicarage, Longthorpe, Peterborough, conducted by Emma J Southerington