Benson 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
-58-14.58-58.36-12-58-34-18,18
Leadhead
m 14263857
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Bristol Surprise Major
Method below
Gloucester Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Bc
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
6
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
Sat 31 Dec 1966 First inclusion in a peal on towerbells 5080 Spliced Surprise Major (150m) by the Gloucester & Bristol Diocesan Association at Holy Nativity, Knowle, Bristol, conducted by Anthony R Peake
Tue 9 Jul 1968 First peal on towerbells Benson Surprise Major at Guiseley by the Yorkshire Association at Guiseley
Mon 11 Sept 2000 First peal on handbells Benson Surprise Major by the Leicester Diocesan Guild at Barrow-on-Soar, Leics