Ashtead 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
-58-16-56-36-34-38-14-78,12
Leadhead
d 18674523
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Ashtead Surprise Major
Method below
Ashtead Surprise Major
FCH Groups
ac
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
678
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)
♫ 59
Performances
Date Type Details
Mon 18 Jan 1932 First peal on towerbells Ashtead Surprise Major at Ashtead by the Guildford Diocesan Guild at Ashtead
Sat 12 Dec 1970 LongLength on towerbells 13440 Ashtead Surprise Major by the Yorkshire Association at Bell Foundry Tower, Loughborough, Leicestershire, conducted by C Barrie Dove
Thu 19 Nov 1981 First peal on handbells Ashtead Surprise Major by the Hereford Diocesan Guild at Windover, Much Birch, Herefords
Wed 27 May 2020 First inclusion in a quarter peal on keyboards 1504 Spliced Surprise Major (23m) at Bosham & Portsmouth, Ringing Room, West Sussex & Hampshire, conducted by Benjamin J Carey