Portland 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
-38-16-56-16-12-58-14-78,12
Leadhead
d 18674523
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Ickleton Surprise Major
Method below
Portland Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BDc
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
None
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)
♫ 61
Performances
Date Type Details
Mon 21 Feb 1955 First peal on towerbells Portland Surprise Major at Bishop Ryder, Birmingham by the St Martin's Guild for the Diocese of Birmingham at Bishop Ryder, Birmingham
Thu 10 Mar 1983 First inclusion in a peal on handbells 5056 Spliced Surprise Major (44m) by the Hereford Diocesan Guild at Beckington, Hereford, Herefordshire, conducted by Frederick Shallcross