May 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
-58-14.58-58.1236-12-3458-12-18,18
Leadhead
m 14263857
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Bristol Surprise Major
Method below
May Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Bc
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
34
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 10 May 1976 First peal on towerbells May Surprise Major at Sacred Trinity, Salford by the Lancashire Association at Sacred Trinity, Salford
Sun 4 May 1986 First peal on handbells May Surprise Major by the Hereford Diocesan Guild at Windover, Much Birch, Herefords