Kelso Surprise Minor

also known as Oxford Surprise pre 20C
Blue Line
Properties
Changes
  • Adjacent
  • Identity
  • Jump
  • Static
  • Dynamic
  • Cross
  • Penultimate
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
36-36.14-12-36.12-14.56,12
Leadhead
e 164523
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
London Surprise Minor
Method below
Kelso Surprise Minor
FCH Groups
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
93
Leads in course
5
Lead length
24
Plain course length
120
Hunt bells
1
Working bells
5
Stationary bells
0
Maximum blows in one place
2
Music score (default scheme)
♫ 22
Performances
Date Type Details
Sat 3 Nov 1956 First peal on towerbells Kelso Surprise Minor at Kemble by the Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association at Kemble
Tue 12 May 1998 First peal on handbells Kelso Surprise Minor by the Hertford County Association at St Albans, Herts