Betelgeuse Surprise Maximus

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
36-7T.18-9T.50.36.14-70.3T.12-9T.70.18-18.9T.18-18.ET,1T
Leadhead
l 1648203T5E79
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Orion Surprise Maximus
Method below
Betelgeuse Surprise Maximus
FCH Groups
/BEc
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
14
Leads in course
11
Lead length
48
Plain course length
528
Hunt bells
1
Working bells
11
Stationary bells
0
Maximum blows in one place
2
Music score (default scheme)
♫ 113
Performances
Date Type Details
Tue 8 Nov 1983 First peal on towerbells Betelgeuse Surprise Maximus by the St Martin's Guild for the Diocese of Birmingham at St Martin, Birmingham by the St Martin's Guild for the Diocese of Birmingham at St Martin, Birmingham
Thu 21 Aug 2025 First inclusion in a peal on handbells 5136 Spliced Surprise Maximus (8m) by the Arfnarf Society at 26 Redlands Road, Reading, Berkshire, conducted by Jack E Page