Elford 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
38-36.14-12-36.14-14.58.16-16.58,12
Leadhead
f 14263857
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Elford Surprise Major
Method below
London Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BDNd
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
3
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)
♫ 42
Performances
Date Type Details
Sat 2 Oct 1954 First peal on towerbells Elford Surprise Major at Drighlington by the Yorkshire Association at Drighlington
Sun 5 Apr 1964 First inclusion in a peal on handbells 5120 Spliced Surprise Major (14m) by the Middlesex County Association & London Diocesan Guild at 39 Titian Avenue, Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire, conducted by John R Mayne