Illey 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
38-38.14-12-38.14-14.58.14.56.14.38,12
Leadhead
b 15738264
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
London Surprise Major
Method below
Illey Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BDde
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
1
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)
♫ 40
Performances
Date Type Details
Wed 30 Mar 1966 First peal on towerbells Illey Surprise Major at Edgbaston by the St Martin's Guild for the Diocese of Birmingham at Edgbaston
Sun 27 Sept 1987 First peal on handbells Illey Surprise Major by the Hereford Diocesan Guild at Chez Jon, Bishops Frome, Herefords