Malpas 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
34-58.14-58-36-14-58.14-14.78,18
Leadhead
l 16482735
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Malpas Surprise Major
Method below
Lancashire Surprise Major
FCH Groups
Dc
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
354
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)
♫ 75
Performances
Date Type Details
Fri 7 Jun 1974 First peal on towerbells Malpas Surprise Major at Stratton St Margaret by the Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association at Stratton St Margaret
Wed 17 Mar 2021 First peal on handbells 5088 Malpas Surprise Major at 26 Redlands Road, Reading, Berkshire, conducted by Jack E Page