TUSCALOOSA - SS : USA - AL

*Location:

   Clock tower
   Shelton State Community College
   Old Greensboro Road at Mae Hinton Blvd.
   Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
   LL: N 33.12044, W 87.56249

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*Contact:

   Shelton State Community College
   9500 Old Greensboro Road
   Tuscaloosa, AL  35487
   T: (205)391-2211
   E: lwaldrop@sheltonstate.edu

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 24 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in unknown year
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2004

*Links:

On the college Website, there is no mention of the bells, though the home page includes a photo of the bell tower, and it can be seen in one of the virtual tours (actually panoramas).

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard 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 AL.

*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 2004/07/24

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