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The Class of 1892 Bells
*Location:
Grover Cleveland Tower Graduate College Princeton University 88 College Road West Princeton, New Jersey, USA LL: N 40.34056, W 74.66449
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*Player:
R. Robin Austin (C) 2801 Pennsylvania Avenue #A106 Philadelphia, PA 19130-1741 H: (215)763-4889 W: (267)426-6505 E: ajanta777@verizon.net*Past carillonneurs:
1927-40 (None appointed) 1941-67 Arthur Lynds Bigelow (1910-67) 19??-93 Walter L. Nollner (1922-2000)
*Contact:
Penna Rose Director of Chapel Music Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544-1098 T: (609)258-3654 E: prose@princeton.edu
*Schedule:
Sundays 1300-1345 except during PhD exam periods in Jan, May, Oct.; summer series 1 pm Sundays, late June through August (guests)
The latest summer schedule of recitals and recitalists
*Remarks:
Originally played rarely by guests, and daily by an electro-pneumatic roll player, which was dead by 1941. Console of 1966: - Y 74:GA/GC29 was made by Prof.Arthur Bigelow (and students); trebles added in 1966 (by Bigelow & students) and 1968 (by ?) were all cast for it in 1965; it was intended for 70 bells, but 3 smallest trebles disappeared before 1968; this console is now in Verdin museum in Cincinnati. Next renovation completed 1993, included new clappers, trans- mission, headpieces, frame, cabin, playing and practice keyboards, with transposition altered to concert pitch; the top semitone was removed to the University archives; new P&F bass cast to G&J heavy profile.
*Technical data:
Traditional carillon of 67 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is G in the bass octave
Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
Keyboard range: G D / G C 31
There is one missing bass semitone
There is an identical practice console
1 bells were recast or replaced in 1993
by Petit & Fritsen
Prior history:
In 1968, the instrument was enlarged to 67 bells
by Paccard
(8 bells were added in and/or remain from that work.)
In 1966, the instrument was enlarged to 58 bells
by Paccard
(33 bells were added in and/or remain from that work.)
In 1943, the instrument was enlarged to 49 bells
by Bigelow
(0 bells remain from that work.)
In 1927, the instrument was begun with 35 bells
by Gillett & Johnston
(25 bells remain from that work.)
Year of latest technical information source is 1994
*Links:
A news article is accompanied by a photo of Robin Austin among the bass bells. (Unfortunately, you must now pay to view it!)
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Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry,
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Ranking among all North American traditional carillons by weight.
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Index to all traditional carillons in NJ.
Index to all tower bell instruments in NJ.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 11-Feb-08 based on textual data last updated on 2008/01/09 and on technical data last updated on 2006/03/22
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