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2.6
Pudsey 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
-58-16-12-38-14-58-16-78,12
Leadhead
b 15738264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Pudsey Surprise Major
Method below
Cambridge Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BcdY
Accepted extension path
EP3-1BC/1DE
,
EP4-2/11:4:1/5:4:1
Compositions designed for this method
1957
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)
♫ 40
Performances
Date
Type
Details
Sat 15 Mar 1924
First peal on towerbells
Pudsey Surprise Major at Bolsover by the Midland Counties Association at Bolsover
Sun 5 May 1963
First peal on handbells
Pudsey Surprise Major by the Hertford County Association at Bushey Heath, Herts
Sat 6 Jul 1963
LongLength on towerbells
10560 Pudsey Surprise Major by the University of London Society at Bell Foundry Tower, Loughborough, Leicestershire, conducted by Brian J Woodruffe
Sat 11 Nov 1967
LongLength on towerbells
12480 Pudsey Surprise Major by the The Universities Association at Bell Foundry Tower, Loughborough, Leicestershire, conducted by Richard J Parker
Sat 22 Feb 1975
LongLength on towerbells
13440 Pudsey Surprise Major by the Lancashire Association at St James, Accrington, Lancashire, conducted by Richard J Parker
Sat 19 Apr 2014
LongLength on towerbells
20160 Pudsey Surprise Major by the Winchester & Portsmouth Diocesan Guild at Clock House Bells, Awbridge, Hampshire, conducted by Andrew B Mills
Tue 28 Apr 2020
First inclusion in a quarter peal on keyboards
1280 Spliced Surprise Major (8m) at Great Hockham, Reach & Norwich, Ringing Room, conducted by David C Brown