109 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
-58-14.58-58.36-14-58-1256-78,12
Leadhead
a 13527486
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Premier Surprise Major
Method below
109 Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Bc
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
5
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)
♫ 80
Performances
Date Type Details
Wed 29 Nov 1989 First peal on towerbells 109 Surprise Major at Barrow Gurney by the Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association at Barrow Gurney
Wed 1 Apr 2026 First peal on handbells 5024 109 Surprise Major by the Guild of St Cuileáin at Manor Cottage, Great Hockham, Norfolk, conducted by David C Brown