NEWARK - S : USA - OH

   Flory Memorial Carillon

*Location:

   Second Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)
   East Church & North 2nd Streets
   Newark, Ohio, USA
   LL: N 40.05977, W 82.40206

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*Player:

   Jo Nelson

   James A. McPeek

*Contact:

   Second Presbyterian Church
   42 East Church Street
   Newark, OH  43055
   T: (614)349-8691
   E: secpresweb@hotmail.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Reportedly the lightest hand-playable
   carillon in the world; uses
   internal hammers with external pivots.
   Metal-framed Dutch keyboard by P&F.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 35 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is up two octaves
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    C G   
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1964
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 2006

*Links:

The church Website has a distorted photo of the building on the home page; the carillon is NOT located in the visible tower, but out of the picture to the left.  There is no information about the carillon (as of June 2006).

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen 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 OH.

Index to all tower bell instruments in OH.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 18-Oct-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/10/16
   and on technical data last updated on 2006/11/15

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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