Staffordshire 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
-58-16-12-16-14-58-14-78,12
Leadhead
d 18674523
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Jersey Surprise Major
Method below
Staffordshire Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Bc
Accepted extension path
EP4-2/11:4:1/9:4:4
Compositions designed for this method
8
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 24 Feb 1934 First peal on towerbells Staffordshire Surprise Major at Church Lawton by the North Staffordshire Association at Church Lawton
Sun 23 Jun 1991 First peal on handbells Staffordshire Surprise Major by the Hereford Diocesan Guild at Swaledale, Holme Lacy, Herefords
Mon 20 Dec 2010 LongLength on towerbells 12000 Staffordshire Surprise Major by the Lichfield & Walsall Archdeaconries Society at St Nicholas, Mavesyn Ridware, Staffordshire, conducted by Stuart C W Hutchieson