Cray Surprise Major

Blue Line
Properties
Changes
  • Adjacent
  • Identity
  • Jump
  • Static
  • Dynamic
  • Cross
  • Penultimate
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
-56-14-56-36-34-58-34-18,12
Leadhead
e 16482735
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Cray Surprise Major
Method below
Cray Surprise Major
FCH Groups
a
Accepted extension path
EP3-1EF/4FG , EP4-2/5:4:1/9:4:4
Compositions designed for this method
372
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)
♫ 90
Performances
Date Type Details
Thu 24 Jun 1971 First peal on towerbells Cray Surprise Major at Knebworth by the Hertford County Association at Knebworth
Tue 12 Sept 1989 First peal on handbells Cray Surprise Major by the Chester Diocesan Guild at Wilmslow, Cheshire
Wed 27 May 2020 First inclusion in a quarter peal on keyboards 1504 Spliced Surprise Major (23m) at Bosham & Portsmouth, Ringing Room, West Sussex & Hampshire, conducted by Benjamin J Carey