EDMONTON - CH : CANADA - AB

*Location:

   Friendship Tower
   City Hall
   Sir Winston Churchill Square
   (99 Street NW at 102A Avenue NW)
   Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
   LL: N 53.54520, W 113.48971

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*Contact:

   Mayor Bill Smith
   City of Edmonton
   City Hall
   1 Sir Winston Churchill Square
   Edmonton, AB  T3J 2B7
   T: (780)496-8200   F: (780)496-8210
   E: stephen.mandel@edmonton.ca

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   The instrument plays "up to 99 tunes"
   and may be booked for use with
   payment of a "nominal fee".

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 23 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1991
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

A city tour page about City Hall has a photo of the building showing part of the tower, and mentioning the bells.  The City Hall virtual tour (Flash-based) opens with a night photo of the building and tower.

Building photos from Emporis Buildings
(Also see our Emporis Advice.)

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by weight.
Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).

Index to all tower bell instruments in AB.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 21-Apr-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/04/20
   and on technical data last updated on 1995/04/01

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