Nice Surprise Major

Blue Line
Properties
Changes
  • Adjacent
  • Identity
  • Jump
  • Static
  • Dynamic
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
-58-14.58-58.36-14-1258-14-38,18
Leadhead
m 14263857
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Bristol Surprise Major
Method below
Nice Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Kc
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
32
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)
♫ 71
Performances
Date Type Details
Tue 24 Aug 1971 First peal on towerbells 5088 Nice Surprise Major by the Bath & Wells Diocesan Association at St Peter and St Paul, Wincanton, Somerset, conducted by D John Hunt
Mon 1 Jun 1998 First peal on handbells Nice Surprise Major by the Leicester Diocesan Guild at Barrow-on-Soar, Leics