Zurich 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
-38-14-58-16-14-58.12.36-78,12
Leadhead
b 15738264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Cambridge Surprise Major
Method below
Zurich Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BLace
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
15
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
Fri 12 Jul 1963 First peal on towerbells Zurich Surprise Major at Bellfoundry, Loughborough by the Midland Counties Guild at Bellfoundry, Loughborough
Mon 23 Aug 2021 First quarter peal on keyboards 1280 Zurich Surprise Major by the The Bellerophons at Ringing Room, UK & USA, conducted by David B Wilson (Vancouver, WA)
Thu 10 Apr 2025 First quarter peal on handbells 1344 Zurich Surprise Major at Church House, Melbourne, Derbyshire, conducted by Tim Peverett