108 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
-58-14-56-16-14-1258-34-58,12
Leadhead
f 14263857
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Leatherhead Surprise Major
Method below
108 Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BKc
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)
♫ 63
Performances
Date Type Details
Fri 29 Sept 1989 First peal on towerbells 108 Surprise Major at Cathedral, Bristol by the Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association at Cathedral, Bristol
Thu 19 Mar 2026 First peal on handbells 5024 108 Surprise Major by the Guild of St Cuileáin at Manor Cottage, Great Hockham, Norfolk, conducted by David C Brown