Buckfastleigh 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
34-38.14-58-36-14-58.16-56.18,18
Leadhead
k 18674523
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Buckfastleigh Surprise Major
Method below
Buckfastleigh Surprise Major
FCH Groups
DKN
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
312
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
Sat 27 Jul 1974 First peal on towerbells Buckfastleigh Surprise Major at Oakham by the Peterborough Diocesan Guild at Oakham
Sun 21 Jun 1987 First peal on handbells 5152 Buckfastleigh Surprise Major by the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths at 1a, Brampton Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, conducted by Roger Baldwin