MESA : USA - AZ

*Location:

   The Center
   Las Sendas
   East Saddleback Street
   Mesa, Arizona, USA
   LL: N 33.48313, W 111.67729

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Jack D. Allenberg, Project Director
   The Sonoran Land Group
   4600 South Mill Road, Suite 210
   Tempe, AZ  85282
   T: (602)396-1098
   E: jallenberg@lassendas.com
   - or -
   Gary K. Walker   (H)
   Red Mountain Academy, Inc.
   1040 East Osborn Road, Suite 204
   Phoenix, AZ  85014-5249
   T: (602)828-2022
   - or -
   Las Sendas Community Association
   7900 East Eagle Crest
   Mesa, AZ  85207
   E: mmoore@thetrailhead.org  [manager]

*Schedule:

   Automatic play 1830-2030 Sat, Sun

*Remarks:

   Bells cast in 1995.  Only the lowest
   24 notes are playable electrically,
   from 4-octave ivory keyboard with range
   C-C.  Traditional playing and practice
   keyboards are in climate-controlled
   storage awaiting construction
   of final tower.
   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 48 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     G G 24/    ----  
   There is one missing bass semitone
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1996
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 1997

*Links:

The Las Sendas Golf Club Website doesn't say anything about the carillon, but some of the photographs show the kind of country in which it is located.  (The Las Sendas community is focused on the golf course.)  The bell tower is not shown on the course map (located under Course Overview, and confusingly oriented toward the east, not the north), but it is located near the 7th tee.

Here is a photo (85 KB) of the temporary bell tower, which is a steel framework clad in wood.

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 AZ.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 11-Feb-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/01/09
   and on technical data last updated on 1997/07/12

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