Bordesley 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
-58-16-12-16-12-38-12-18,12
Leadhead
a 13527486
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Jersey Surprise Major
Method below
Bordesley Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Bac
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
1
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)
♫ 57
Performances
Date Type Details
Thu 7 Oct 1954 First peal on towerbells Bordesley Surprise Major at Cathedral, Birmingham by the St Martin's Guild for the Diocese of Birmingham at Cathedral, Birmingham
Tue 23 Jan 2024 First inclusion in a peal on handbells 5024 Spliced Surprise Major (6m) by the Guild of St Cuileáin at 26 Redlands Road, Reading, Berkshire, conducted by Jack E Page