Helston Surprise Major

Blue Line
Properties
Changes
  • Adjacent
  • Identity
  • Jump
  • Static
  • Dynamic
  • Cross
  • Penultimate
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
-58-16-58-38-12-58-56-38,12
Leadhead
f 14263857
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Helston Surprise Major
Method below
Helston Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BNc
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
2
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)
♫ 35
Performances
Date Type Details
Sat 21 Jan 1967 First inclusion in a peal on towerbells 5120 Spliced Surprise Major (160m) by the Bath & Wells Diocesan Association at St Mary the Virgin, Yatton, Somerset, conducted by Anthony R Peake
Mon 1 May 1989 First peal on towerbells Helston Surprise Major at St Andrew-the-Great, Cambridge by the Peterborough Diocesan Guild at St Andrew-the-Great, Cambridge