Database hardcopy (printouts)
"Why would I want special hardcopy when I can print Web pages right from my browser?"
That question may be in your mind right now.
There are several possible answers, mostly related to the fact that the site data pages
on this Website
are produced from a database which was originally designed to support print media.
(Don't overlook Disadvantages of hardcopy, below.)
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You may want more detail on the technical aspects of tower bell installations
than we are currently able to deliver on a single-site Webpage.
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You may want to have information prepackaged for you with multiple sites
per page, rather than having to spend the time to select and print
one page at a time yourself.
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You may just like books, and want your own copy of whatever a book
titled "Carillons of the Americas" or "Carillons of the World" or
"Carillons of [wherever]" would look like if we went to press with it today,
without the delays and other disadvantages
of the ordinary in-quantity hardcopy publication process.
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You may want a list of just the tower instruments which meet one or more criteria
that aren't implicit in the online indexes which we provide on this Website.
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You may have one of the previous publications or printouts, and just want to see
the sites which have changed since it was produced.
Disadvantages of hardcopy (printouts and/or PDF)
- Plain text data and technical data for a site are not presented together
as they are on a single-site Webpage.
See how hardcopy is logicically organized
(under Expanded Information, below).
- Technical data is presented in a coded form in tables, not in plain text.
You must interpret it using the code translation tables which are provided.
While this is not difficult to do,
it may feel awkward until you become accustomed to it.
(The reason for using tables is that much more information
can be displayed on a single page,
and it can be easier to compare technical aspects of different sites.)
By contrast, the site data pages on this Website have been extracted from
the database by a process which converts selected coded technical data
into plain text and incorporates it into the same page with the non-technical data.
- Revision dates for textual and technical data are not shown.
(But the year of the latest technical data source is included.)
Disadvantages specific to PDF (Portable Document Format) files
- Within PDF files for individual geographic areas (see below),
there may be comments which are not relevant to that file in isolation
because they refer to other sections of what was designed to be a complete book
with a fixed sequence of chapters.
- (A previously announced disadvantage, that characters with diacritical marks
would display incorrectly, has been eliminated in the latest revision of
the publication process.
That problem never occurred in paper printouts.)
Downloading database printouts
Selected standard database printouts are available online as PDF files
which may be downloaded and printed.
If you don't yet have computer software that will display and print such files,
then you can download the free Adobe Reader by clicking the icon at right:
Versions of the Adobe Reader are available for many different computer systems.
Below are listed the currently available files (date, page count, download size);
the sites included in each file correspond closely to those listed on this Website
as of the effective date, except as indicated.
- Title Page, Copyright Notice and Terms of Use
(Nov.2007, 1 page, 4KB)
You must read and heed the Notice and Terms of Use
if you download any of these PDF files.
This page is also included as the first page of each of the following files.
- Introduction
(Nov.2007, 9 pages, 26KB)
An essential companion to all of the PDF files listed below.
- North America - carillons
(Nov.2007, 69 pages, 283KB)
- Central and South America
(Nov.2007, 9 pages, 20KB)
* The above four files together are approximately equivalent
to an up-to-date edition of Carillons of the Americas
(see hardcopy history below).
Note that Mexico is included with North America,
not with Central and South America.
When printed, this amounts to 86 pages (eliminating redundant title pages).
- North America - chimes, rings, etc.
(Nov.2007, 114 pages, 465KB)
- Africa and the Mideast
(Nov.2007, 7 pages, 20KB)
- Asia and the Pacific Rim
(Nov.2007, 27 pages, 90KB)
Includes Australian rings, not yet posted to the Website.
- British Isles
(Nov.2007, 20 pages, 60KB)
- Denmark
(Nov.2007, 14 pages, 55KB)
- Italy
(Nov.2007, 10 pages, 18KB)
Includes chimes (mostly Veronese rings), not yet posted to the Website.
- Europe and North Atlantic
(Nov.2007, 31 pages, 95KB)
- Bellfoundries
(Dec.2007, 6 pages, 22KB)
* Not yet produced are Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands
(the "big four" of the European carillon arena);
each will be in a separate PDF.
* The set of all files listed above constitutes a complete edition of
Carillons of the World
(see hardcopy history below),
or will when the remaining sections are published.
When printed, this amounts to 322 pages (eliminating redundant title pages,
and not yet including the four unpublished countries).
* The following special extracts are not part of the standard edition of
"Carillons of the World" but come from the same database and source material.
- North America, traditional carillons
(Nov.2007, 46 pages, 193KB)
- North America, non-traditional carillons
(Jun.2006, 17 pages, 63KB)
- North American multi-phase traditional carillons
(Jan.2002, 19 pages, 70KB)
- North American tubular chimes and carillons - moved to the
Tower Bells Supersite
- Bell weights
(Jan.2002, 8 pages, 22KB) -
the seven panels from the Bell weights Webpage
Expanded information
Here is the additional information referenced from various places above.
- What else is in the database:
- The following items are in addition to what is displayed
on individual site data pages and described elsewhere on this Website:
- -> a potentially complete technical description of each phase
of an instrument's evolution before the present state,
including prior instruments at the same site that were totally replaced
- -> height of the lowest and highest levels of bells above ground
- -> height of the playing keyboard above ground
- -> percent openness of the belfry walls
- -> additional mechanisms beyond the principal one
- -> type of institution
- -> religious denomination of the institution (if any)
- -> latitude and longitude to the nearest minute (may be estimated)
- => When a complete geographic area (see below) is listed,
there is additional plain text "comment" material at the head
of internal subdivisions and interspersed among the site data.
- NOTE: The fact that the database can contain such details for
any instrument should not be construed as implying that the database
does contain such details for every instrument.
Much information remains to be acquired.
- How hardcopy is geographically organized into regions:
- * North America includes Canada, Mexico and the USA.
North American carillons (traditional and non-traditional)
- North American chimes, chimolas and rings
- North American tubular chimes and carillons
* In each of the following geographic areas,
chimes and rings are in subdivisions after carillons:
- Central and South America
- Africa and the Mid-East
- Australasia and the Pacific Rim
- Belgium
- British Isles (including Ireland and adjacent islands,
but omitting rings)
- Denmark and dependencies (present or former)
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Europe and North Atlantic (all countries not listed above, including Russia)
NOTE:
Geographic areas can be merged to a limited extent in a custom selection unit.
But it is not possible to treat the entire world as a custom selection unit.
- How hardcopy is logically organized:
- Within a geographical area or a custom selection unit are two or three subsections:
- -> Master Information Listing (plain text data)
- -> Condensed Information Listing (technical data)
- -> Summaries (optional)
- * If defunct sites are known in an area, then both of the Listings
are subdivided into extant and defunct sites, in that order.
* Within a Listing (or a subdivision),
sites are shown in alphabetical order by city.
* For a custom selection unit, a different sort order can be specified;
this may merge the extant and defunct subdivisions of included areas.
- After the last geographical area of a standard hardcopy
there may be composite summaries for all areas.
(This is not applicable to custom selection units.)
- Useful selection criteria:
- Any or all of the following criteria may be used to select a desired set of sites
from one or more geographic areas:
- + maximum and minimum latitude and longitude (to the nearest minute)
- + country and state (in USA)
- + country and province (in Canada)
- + country (anywhere)
- + bellfounder(s)
- + size (number of bells--exact value or min/max)
- + missing-chromatics code letter
- + principal action code letter
- + any keyboard specification value
- + institutional code letter
- + denominational code letter
- + include/exclude any of the six main types of plain text information:
name, location, player, contact, schedule, remarks
NOTE: This is not a complete list of all possible selection criteria.
- Custom publication:
- A custom publication is a database printout made to order.
At the maximum, it can display all public information
about every site in the database.
At the minimum, it can display only those sites within a single geographic area
which meet criteria specified by the customer.
In any case, it will include a title page, copyright information and copying restrictions,
and several pages of text explaining how to interpret the data presented therein.
If you think that a custom publication might fit your needs better than the
standard publications presently available as PDFs (see above),
then see the print-to-order page.
- Hardcopy history:
- Nov. 1970 - First article for the Bulletin of the GCNA
- Dec. 1971 - Update article for the Bulletin of the GCNA
- Dec. 1973 - Update article for the Bulletin of the GCNA
- Sep. 1976 - Update article for the Bulletin of the GCNA
- Jul. 1979 - First edition of Carillons of the World
(press run 75 copies)
- Jan. 1980 - Update article for the Bulletin of the GCNA.
The composite of the articles to this date is essentially equivalent to
the North American portion of the first edition of Carillons of the World.
- 1990-1992 - Seven custom database extracts for various people and purposes
- Jan. 1992 - Update article for the Bulletin of the GCNA (Vol.XLI)
- Jan. 1992 - First edition of Carillons of the Americas
(press run not recorded), essentially equivalent to the collective content
of the six Bulletin articles to date.
- Dec. 1992 - The Editor of the Bulletin decided that no further
update articles would be published.
- 1992-2001 - Thirty-one custom database extracts
for various people and purposes
- Jan. 2002 - Basic hardcopy made available online as PDF files;
includes a complete equivalent of Carillons of the Americas.
- Nov. 2007 - Standard hardcopy made available online as PDF files;
includes a complete equivalent of Carillons of the Americas,
plus most of what would be Carillons of the World.
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