Hereford 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
-38-14-58-36-34-58.16-16.38,18
Leadhead
m 14263857
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Primrose Surprise Major
Method below
Hereford Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BacZ
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
35
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
Sun 4 Feb 1951 First inclusion in a peal on towerbells 5120 Spliced Surprise Major (25m) by the Oxford Diocesan Guild and Oxford Society at Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul, Dorchester, Oxfordshire, conducted by Walter F Judge
Thu 20 Sept 1951 First peal on towerbells 5056 Hereford Surprise Major by the Middlesex County Association & London Diocesan Guild at St Mary, Willesden, Middlesex, conducted by Charles W Roberts
Mon 14 Oct 1968 First inclusion in a peal on handbells 5120 Spliced Surprise Major (28m) by the Middlesex County Association & London Diocesan Guild at 170, Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex, conducted by John R Mayne
Sat 21 Feb 1970 LongLength on towerbells 10080 Spliced Surprise Major (45m) by the Middlesex County Association & London Diocesan Guild at All Saints, Harrow Weald, Middlesex, conducted by Anthony R Peake
Wed 22 May 1974 First peal on handbells Hereford Surprise Major by the Hertford County Association by the Hertford County Association at Watford, Herts
Sun 21 Sept 1986 LongLength on towerbells 10080 Spliced Surprise Major (45m) by the Essex Association at St Mary, Ilford, Essex, conducted by Adrian C Malton
Sat 15 Jun 2002 LongLength on towerbells 15008 Spliced Surprise Major (67m) by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, Oxfordshire, conducted by Simon J L Linford
Fri 28 Oct 2005 LongLength on towerbells 22400 Spliced Surprise Major (100m) by the Ancient Society of College Youths at Bell Foundry Campanile, Loughborough, Leicestershire, conducted by Simon J L Linford