WILLIAMSTOWN : USA - MA

*Location:

   Thompson Memorial Chapel (UCC) 
   Williams College 
   Main Street (Rte.2) 
   Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA

*Player:

   Guild of [Student] Carillonneurs

*Contact:

   Chaplain's Office 
   Williams College 
   Williamstown, MA  01267 
   T: (413)597-2483   F: (413)597-3955 
   E: nancy.luczynski@williams.edu

*Schedule:

   Daily at 1250, 1600, 1900.

*Remarks:

   Added semitone is flat 7th.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     D#F   /    D#G  3
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1904
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 1993

*Links:

The college Website shows the chapel clearly on part of the campus map. The photo pages contain several views of the chapel.

The Chapel Website includes a good photo of the building (be sure to mouseover for an evening version).
Warning: The "More Photos" link is a PowerPoint presentation (6MB download!) which demands a lot of memory to display. If you can manage it, slides 30 and 31 show the chimestand; they are larger versions of two of the photos on the "Carillon" page.

To see a locator map, click here: or here: or here:
Also check our own Map Use Hints.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Troy) bellfoundry.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).

Index to all tower bell instruments in MA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  7-Sep-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/09/07
   and on technical data last updated on 1994/01/11

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