Dorchester 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
-58-16-12-38.14-14.38-12-78,12
Leadhead
b 15738264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Pudsey Surprise Major
Method below
Dorchester Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Bcd
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
105
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)
♫ 63
Performances
Date Type Details
Wed 10 Feb 1954 First peal on towerbells Dorchester Surprise Major at Thurcaston by the Leicester Diocesan Guild at Thurcaston
Sun 24 Feb 2002 LongLength on towerbells 11424 Dorchester Surprise Major by the Bath & Wells Diocesan Association at Pig-le-Tower, Marston Bigot, Somerset, conducted by Brian J Woodruffe
Wed 30 Oct 2002 First peal on handbells Dorchester Surprise Major by the Middlesex County Association and London Diocesan Guild at Woking, Surrey