CLEARWATER : USA - FL 

   Betty Jane Dimmitt Memorial Carillon

*Location:

   Episcopal Church of the Ascension
   Orange Avenue at Turner Street
   Clearwater, Florida, USA
   LL: N 27.95869, W 82.80272
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*Player:

   E. Lee Cobb, Organist-Choirmaster   (C)
   7 East Grove Avenue
   Lake Wales, FL  33853-4707
   H: (863)514-7008
   - and -
   Phyllis C. Webb   (C)  [winter only]
   E: phylcwebb@comcast.net
   - and occasionally -
   Janine Schenck   (A)
   E: windDancer977@gmail.com
   - and occasionally -
   Linda Pointer   (C)
   E: fphinizy@pipeline.com
*Past carillonneurs: 
   1985-89 Linda Pointer   (C)
   1990-2008 Beth E. Hunter   (A)

*Contact:

   Church of the Ascension
   701 Orange Avenue
   Clearwater, FL  33756-5232
   T: (727)447-3469   F: (727)446-5170
   E: office@churchofascension.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

      The latest summer schedule of recitals and recitalists

*Remarks:

   Keyboard has space for addition of Bb
   bass and 5 trebles.

*Technical data: 

   Traditional carillon of 49 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 an identical practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1982
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008

*Links:

The church Website has a brief description of the carillon on the Music Ministry page, plus a concert schedule.

Waymarking page

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts 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 FL.

Index to all tower bell instruments in FL.

*Status: 

   This page was built from the database on 11-Jun-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/06/09
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/06/05

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