Lincoln 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
-58-16-12-38-14-58.16-16.78,12
Leadhead
b 15738264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Pudsey Surprise Major
Method below
Lincoln Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BcdY
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
94
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)
♫ 41
Performances
Date Type Details
Thu 14 Feb 1935 First peal on towerbells Lincoln Surprise Major at Helmingham by the Suffolk Guild at Helmingham
Wed 7 Dec 1977 First peal on handbells Lincoln Surprise Major by the Hertford County Association at Watford, Herts
Sat 15 Jun 2002 LongLength on towerbells 15008 Spliced Surprise Major (67m) by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, Oxfordshire, conducted by Simon J L Linford
Fri 28 Oct 2005 LongLength on towerbells 22400 Spliced Surprise Major (100m) by the Ancient Society of College Youths at Bell Foundry Campanile, Loughborough, Leicestershire, conducted by Simon J L Linford
Thu 12 Nov 2020 First quarter peal on keyboards 1280 Lincoln Surprise Major at Ringing Room (Vernet-les-Bains, Reach, Norwich, Wetton), conducted by David C Brown