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   Crane Memorial Carillon

*Location:

   St.Chrysostom's Episcopal Church
   North Dearborn Street,
     north of West Schiller Street
   Chicago, Illinois, USA
   LL: N 41.90847, W 87.63070
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*Player:

   Rebecca Hunter, D.C.
   903 North Cedar Avenue
   Elgin, IL  60120-2943
   W: (847)697-4551
*Past Carillonneurs: 
   (prior years not researched)
   19??-??: Robert Lodine (d.)
   19??-??: Richard Hoskins

*Contact:

   St.Chrysostom's Episcopal Church
   1424 North Dearborn Street
   Chicago, IL  60610-1506
   T: (312)944-1083   F: (312)944-1065
   E: webmaster@saintc.org

*Schedule:

  (unknown)

*Technical data: 

   Traditional carillon of 43 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     C G   /    C G   
   There is one missing bass semitone
   There is a non-identical practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1927
     with bells made by Gillett & Johnston
   Year of latest technical information source is 1986

*Links:

The church Website opens with two drawings of the building, and includes a Music page which lists past and present carillonneurs. The very long second chapter of the church History includes many unusual details about "the first carillon to be installed west of the eastern seaboard."

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Gillett & Johnston 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).

Index to all traditional carillons in IL.

Index to all tower bell instruments in IL.

*Status: 

   This page was built from the database on 11-Jun-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/06/01
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/05/09

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