Silchester 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
34-38.14-58-36-14-58.16-56.18,12
Leadhead
e 16482735
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Silchester Surprise Major
Method below
Buckfastleigh Surprise Major
FCH Groups
DKN
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
40
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)
♫ 57
Performances
Date Type Details
Thu 18 Oct 1934 First peal on towerbells Silchester Surprise Major at Helmingham by the Suffolk Guild at Helmingham
Thu 5 Aug 1993 First peal on handbells 5120 Silchester Surprise Major by the Hereford Diocesan Guild at Swaledale, Holme Lacy, Herefordshire