HYANNIS : USA - MA

*Location:

   Christmas Tree Shop 
   655 Route 132 
   Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 41.66592, W 70.29199
Site locator map or [ MapQuest map ]
Also see our own Map Use Hints.

*Player:

   E. J. Mullins

*Contact:

   Christmas Tree Shop 
   655 Route 132 
   Hyannis, MA  02601 
   T: (508)778-5521 
   - or - 
   Christmas Tree Shops General Offices 
   261 Whites Path 
   South Yarmouth, MA  02664-1217 
   T: (508)394-1206
   E: webmaster@christmastreeshops.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)
   Shop open daily 8am-10pm.

*Remarks:

   Glockenspiel with animated figures.
   Formerly listed as South Yarmouth, 
   which is not the actual location. 
   Not known whether sub-bourdon is 
   usable from keyboard.

*Technical data: 

   Electric-automatic carillon of 24 (or 25) bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is unknown 
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range: (  )----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1989
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

*Links:

Photo of building and brief specification of the bells, from Glockenspiel USA.

The chain store Website supplies a locator map page but otherwise has no information specific to this store.  Formerly it also provided an audio clip of bells playing, but that seems to have been removed.

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

Index to all glockenspiels in the world.

Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by weight.
Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).

Index to all tower bell instruments in MA.

*Status: 

   This page was built from the database on  3-Nov-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/11/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/01/04

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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