HUNTSVILLE : USA - AL

*Location:

   First Baptist Church (SBC)
   Governors Drive SW at Stanford Drive
   Huntsville, Alabama, USA
   LL: N 34.72068, W 86.58820
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*Player:

   Dan Lawhon
   W: (256)428-9423   F: (256)428-9432
   - and -
   Michael Moore
*Past Carillonneurs: 
   (late 1990s?) Jonathan Crutchfield
   (early 1990s?) Michael G. Dell

*Contact:

   First Baptist Church
   600 Governors Drive SW
   Huntsville, AL  35801-5128
   T: (256)428-9400   F: (256)428-9402
   E: fbc@fbchsv.org

*Schedule:

   Sunday services and special events

*Remarks:

   Frame & keyboard designed for 61 bells.
   Freestanding steeple is the tallest
   prefabricated structure of its type
   in the world.  Previous report of
   practice console apparently wrong.

*Technical data: 

   Traditional carillon of 48 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  1 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    C --  
   There is one missing bass semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1987
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 1987

*Links:

The church Website has an illustrated page about the carillon and steeple.

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 traditional carillons by weight.
Ranking among all North American traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American concert class carillons by year of completion.

Index to all traditional carillons in AL.

Index to all tower bell instruments in AL.

*Status: 

   This page was built from the database on  4-Sep-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/08/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2006/08/30

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