SANTA BARBARA : USA - CA

*Location:

   Thomas M. Storke Student
     Publication Building
   University of California
   Goleta,
     Santa Barbara, California, USA
   LL: N 34.41267, W 119.84827

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*Player:

   Margo Halsted,   (C)
     Visiting Associate Professor
   330 Cordova Street, #324
   Pasadena, CA  91101-4605
   T: (626)792-4315
   E: mhalsted@music.ucsb.edu

   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:

On the UCSB home page, an aerial photo of the campus shows the tower in the center.

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

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