Hitchin 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
-58-16-56-36-14-58-36-18,12
Leadhead
b 15738264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Ashtead Surprise Major
Method below
Southgate Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Oace
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
3
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)
♫ 36
Performances
Date Type Details
Tue 24 May 1938 First peal on towerbells Hitchin Surprise Major at Hitchin by the Hertford County Association at Hitchin
Fri 25 Sept 1964 First inclusion in a peal on handbells 5120 Spliced Surprise Major (20m) by the Middlesex County Association & London Diocesan Guild at 170, Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex, conducted by John R Mayne