Rochester 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
-58-16-12-38.14-14.38-16-58,18
Leadhead
m 14263857
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Rochester Surprise Major
Method below
Rochester Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Bcd
Accepted extension path
EP3-1DE/6HI , EP4-2/13:4:6
Compositions designed for this method
17
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)
♫ 68
Performances
Date Type Details
Mon 9 Jun 1924 First peal on towerbells Rochester Surprise Major at Leiston by the Suffolk Guild at Leiston
Thu 7 May 1981 First inclusion in a peal on handbells 5056 Spliced Surprise Major (24m) by the Derby Diocesan Association at Technical College, Loughborough, Leicestershire, conducted by Brian L Burrows
Thu 4 Aug 1983 First peal on handbells 5088 Rochester Surprise Major by the Hereford Diocesan Guild at Windover, Much Birch, Herefordshire