TAEJON (DAEJON) : KOREA

*Location:

   Hyechon College
   333 Boksu-dong Seo-gu
   Taejon, Chungchong, Korea
   LL: N 36.35, E 127.35

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   Hyechon College
   333 Boksu-dong Seo-gu
   Taejon  302-715
   T: +82 42 580 6114-5
   F: +82 42 580 6119
   E: webmaster@hcc.ac.kr
   - or -
   T: 580-6140

*Schedule:

   Automatic daily at 9am, 12, 6pm

*Remarks:

   "American standard" clavier; tower is
   an enlarged replica of Stanford U.
   Tower also contains a clock bell, Eb0,
   almost 11000 kg, the largest bell
   ever cast at Aarle-Rixtel.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 77 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the bass octave
   Transposition is down 5 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C F   /    ----  
   There is one missing bass semitone
   There is an identical practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 2002
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003

*Links:

On college Website, the splash page has a huge cartoon background which includes the bell tower.  A photo of the carillon tower appears at the upper left corner of every page.  A 6-page section about the tower and carillon (use the numbered menu across the top) is entirely in Korean, but has several interesting photos.  There is also a fisheye panorama taken in the belfry.  A news page includes some video clips, one of which shows a few moments of GCNA President Dennis Curry playing the carillon.  There is a photo of the Guinness World Record certificate based on 78 bells, though one of those is not connected to the keyboard.
There is an English-language version, but it is a single page, with small photos and no multimedia.

WCF article on this carillon, with tower photo

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Asian & Pacific Rim traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asian & Pacific Rim traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asian & Pacific Rim traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all traditional carillons in KR.

Index to all tower bell instruments in KR.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  6-Apr-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/04/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2006/04/12

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