BEREA - 2 : USA - KY

*Location:

   Draper Building
     (Jessie Preston Draper Memorial)
   Berea College
   Chestnut Street (US Hwy.25)
     near Main Street (KY Hwy.595)
   Berea, Kentucky, USA
   LL: N 37.57297, W 84.29241

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*Player:

   John E. Courter   (C)
   Berea College
   CPO 1762
   Berea, KY  40404-1762
   H: (859)986-9617   W: (859)985-3473
   F: (859)985-3994 / Attn: John Courter
   E: John_Courter@berea.edu

*Contact:

   Berea College
   Berea, KY  40404-0003
   T: (859)985-3000

*Schedule:

  (unknown)

      The latest summer schedule of recitals and recitalists

*Remarks:

   52 bells cast in 1980, 47 for
   MECHANICSBURG - 1, USA - PA, and 5 as
   part of MECHANICSBURG - 4, USA - PA.
   2 basses and 2 trebles cast for
   this installation.   Practice keyboard
   in studio below playing room.
   Keyboard range is 5 octaves, G to G;
   by R.Strauss & Verdin Co. to proposed
   world standard dimensions.
   Dedicated 27 October 2000.
   Additional practice keyboard in old
   studio in Phelps Stokes Chapel attic,
   by Bigelow/Paccard, obtained from
   National Shrine in DC in 1988.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 56 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  5 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     A#G   /    A#C 25
   There are two missing bass semitones
   There is an identical practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 2000
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen  
   Year of latest technical information source is 2000

*Links:

The Berea College Website has a fact sheet about the carillon.  There is a tiny sketch of the top of Draper Hall tower on the home page, and a photograph of it on the "About the College" page.

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 age.

Index to all traditional carillons in KY.

Index to all tower bell instruments in KY, including the 10-bell chime (-1) on the same campus.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  4-Jul-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/07/01
   and on technical data last updated on 2000/05/27

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