*Location:
Thomas M. Storke Student
Publication Building
University of California
Goleta,
Santa Barbara, California, USA
LL: N 34.41267, W 119.84827
*Player:
Margo Halsted, (C)
Visiting Associate Professor
330 Cordova Street, #324
Pasadena, CA 91101-4605
T: (626)792-4315
E: mhalsted@music.ucsb.edu
*Past carillonneurs:
1969-74 Ennis Fruhauf (C) 1974-75 Anne Jefferson 1975-76 (volunteers) 1977-93 James Welch (1996-99 vacant) 2000-04 Anne Rothfarb (d.2005)
*Contact:
Mark Somerfield Department of Music UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2080 T: (805)893-3302 E: somerfie@music.ucsb.edu
*Schedule:
Sunday 5-6pm; Westminster quarter tune at the hour
*Remarks:
Installation by Justin Kramer. Renovated 1998-99.
*Technical data:
Traditional carillon of 61 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is C in the middle octave
Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
Keyboard range: C C / C C 25
There are no missing bass semitones
There is a non-identical practice console
The whole instrument was installed in 1969
with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
Year of latest technical information source is 1970
*Links:
A carillon page has many photos.
A special virtual tour page has a small photo showing the tower, and is also the access point for several QuickTime videos of the campus. The one at "HSSB" includes a full view of Storke Tower, while the one from the top of Storke Tower gives a panorama of the entire campus. NOTE: You will need special software to view these.
News article (2004) about Rick Watson doing maintenance here; with photo among the bells.
News article on an apparent failure of an automatic timer; with clickable photo of some of the carillon bells.
A set of overhead views from Google Maps, Bing Maps bird's eye, and Yahoo Maps
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 CA.
Index to all tower bell instruments in CA.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 13-Nov-08 based on textual data last updated on 2008/10/02 and on technical data last updated on 1997/03/08
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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