Houghton Memorial Carillon
*Location:
Chapel of St.Peter and St.Paul
St.Paul's School
Old Dunbarton Road
near Old Hopkinton Road
Concord, New Hampshire, USA
LL: N 43.19481, W 71.57691
*Player:
Colin Lynch E: clynch@sps.edu
*Contact:
St.Paul's School 325 Pleasant Street Concord, NH 03301-2591 H: (603)225-9186 W: (603)225-3341
*Schedule:
Cambridge (Westminster) quarters.
*Technical data:
Traditional carillon of 23 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is E in the middle octave
Transposition is up 4 semitone(s)
Keyboard range: C C / ----
There are two missing bass semitones
The whole instrument was installed in 1933
with bells made by Gillett & Johnston
Year of latest technical information source is unknown
*Links:
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Gillett & Johnston 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 traditional carillons by year of completion.
Index to all traditional carillons in NH.
Index to all tower bell instruments in NH.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 19-Jan-10 based on textual data last updated on 2010/01/15 and on technical data last updated on 1992/05/09
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