Sussex 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
38-58.14-58-36.14-14.58.16-16.58,12
Leadhead
d 18674523
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Huntingdon Surprise Major
Method below
Sussex Surprise Major
FCH Groups
BDKc
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
131
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)
♫ 54
Performances
Date Type Details
Thu 20 Apr 1961 First peal on towerbells Sussex Surprise Major at Willesden by the Middlesex County Association and London Diocesan Guild at Willesden
Mon 22 Feb 2021 First peal on handbells 5088 Sussex Surprise Major at 26 Redlands Road, Reading, Berkshire, conducted by Jack E Page