Countesthorpe 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
-38-14-58-16-14-58-36-78,18
Leadhead
g 13527486
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Primrose Surprise Major
Method below
Lincolnshire Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BLce
Accepted extension path
EP3-1BC/1BC , EP4-2/7:4:1/1:4:1
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)
♫ 64
Performances
Date Type Details
Wed 2 Nov 1955 First peal on towerbells Countesthorpe Surprise Major at Bellfoundry, Loughborough by the Leicester Diocesan Guild at Bellfoundry, Loughborough
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