MIDLAND - S : USA - MI

*Location:

   Santa House 
   West Main Street at Fitzhugh Street
   Midland, Michigan, USA
   LL: N 43.6144, W 84.2472

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   Santa House 
   301 West Main Street 
   Midland, MI  48640-5162 
   - or - 
   The Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School
   Holly Valent, Registrar 
   2408 Pinehurst Court 
   Midland, MI  48640 
   E: hollyhoho@aol.com

*Schedule:

   Animated hour strike + tunes, 
   8am to 10pm (usually)

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 15 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1998
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003

*Links:

The Santa House is pictured on the home page of the Santa Claus School, oldest such institution in the world.  (The cute snowflake animation may cause jitter on some modern browsers or system lockup on some older ones.)

Photo and brief description from Glockenspiel USA.

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 chimes by size (number of bells).

Index to all tower bell instruments in MI.

*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 2003/06/24

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