MORGANTON : USA - NC

*Location:

   First Baptist Church (SBC)
   West Union Street at Burkemont Avenue
   Morganton, North Carolina, USA
   LL: N 35.7403, W 81.6951

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*Player:

   Linda Faulk, Organist
   E: lhfaulk@fbcmorganton.org

*Contact:

   First Baptist Church
   *parcel:
     502 West Union Street
     Morganton, NC  28655
   *postal:
     PO Box 459
     Morganton, NC  28680-0459
   T: (828)437-2544

*Schedule:

   Automatic on the hour, 0900-2000 daily;
   also for special events

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 23 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1985
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2007

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the building on the home page, and mentions these bells at the bottom of the Music page (which is under Church Ministries on the sidebar menu).

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard bellfoundry, in this region and 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 NC.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  9-Mar-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/03/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/01/09

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