TORONTO - EP : CANADA - ON

   The Exhibition Place Carillon
   (formerly The Carlsberg Carillon)

*Location:

   Exhibition Place
   Lake Shore Boulevard West,
     between Strachan Ave. and Dufferin St.
   Toronto, Ontario, Canada
   LL: N 43.63191, W 79.42288

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*Player:

   Various local carillonneurs

   1975-76 Gordon Slater   (C)
   1980-82 Andrea McCrady   (C)

*Contact:

   Exhibition Place
   Toronto, ON  M6K 3C3
   T: (416)393-6000   F: (416)263-3690
   E: information@explace.on.ca
   - or -
   Gerald Martindale   (A)
   80 Dundas Street East, Apt.1003
   Toronto, ON  M5B 2P5
   H: (416)551-5183   W: (416)363-0331 x30
   E: bellman@rogers.com

*Schedule:

   Special occasions during the annual
   Exhibition.

*Remarks:

   Minor renovations done Summer 2001.
   Formerly listed as TORONTO - CNE;
   site of the annual (August)
   Canadian National Exhibition.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 50 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  5 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C C 48/(G) A#C   
   There are two missing bass semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1974
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

*Links:

The Exhibition Place Website has no information about the carillon, nor even about the location or layout of the Exhibition Place grounds. 

The CNE Website has a small map on the "Plan Your Visit" page, showing the approximate location of the Exhibition.  It also links to an otherwise inaccessible map of the grounds on the EP Website; unfortunately, this also does not show where the carillon is located, nor is the tower visible in any of the photographs on the Virtual Tour.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts 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 concert class carillons by age.

Index to all traditional carillons in ON.

Index to all tower bell instruments in ON.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 15-Jan-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/01/08
   and on technical data last updated on 1975/07/20

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