LOS ANGELES - CLA : USA - CA

*Location:

   Carillon Wall / Shepherd's Gate
   Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (RC)
   West Temple Street at North Grand Ave.
   Los Angeles, California, USA
   LL: N 34.05720, W 118.24501

   Mission San Fernando Rey
   15151 San Fernando Mission Boulevard
   Mission Hills
   San Fernando, California, USA

   St.Monica's Church (RC)
   715 California
   Santa Monica, California, USA

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*Contact:

   Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
   555 West Temple Street
   Los Angeles, CA  90012-2707
   T: (213)680-5200
   E: info@olacathedral.org
      music@olacathedral.org

*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Upper 35 bells were cast in 1931
   by Van Aerschodt and Michiels.
   That installation was dismantled
   in 1971 because of earthquake damage
   to the tower; the bells were later sold
   to Mission San Fernando, where they
   were played by an electric automatic
   system.  The newly-added bass bell was
   cast by Michiels in 1929 and intended
   for Hearst Castle, but was never
   installed there; it hung at
   St.Timothy's Catholic Church in LA from
   1956 until moved here in 2002.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 36 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are three missing bass semitones
   The instrument was enlarged in 2002
     with bells made by Michiels    
   Prior history:
     In 1931, the instrument was begun with 35 bells
       by vanAerschodt
   Year of latest technical information source is 2004

Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.

*Links:

On the Cathedral Website, there is a descriptive page with a history of the instrument; the photo is clickable for a larger version.  Curiously, not all of the bells are pictured; to see them all, look here (20) and here (14 of 16 visible).  Note that none of the carillon bells are in the campanile, which contains half a dozen assorted bells from elsewhere.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Van Aerschodt 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 CA.

*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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