Vancouver 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
-38-14-58-16-14-58-36.12.78,12
Leadhead
b 15738264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Cambridge Surprise Major
Method below
Vancouver Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BLace
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
11
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)
♫ 62
Performances
Date Type Details
Mon 1 Jul 1963 First peal on towerbells Vancouver Surprise Major at Burghill by the Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association at Burghill
Wed 27 Feb 2013 First peal on handbells 5024 Vancouver Surprise Major by the Oxford Diocesan Guild at 15 Lytham End Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire, conducted by Bernard F L Groves