KENNETT SQUARE - 2 : USA - PA

*Location:

   Chimes Tower
   Longwood Gardens
   U.S. Highway 1 at Penn. Route 52
     (or 1001 Longwood Road)
   Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 39.86995, W 75.67746

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*Player:

   (guests)

*Contact:

   Longwood Gardens
   PO Box 501
   Kennett Square, PA  19348-0501
   T: (610)388-1000
   E: EMoody@longwoodgardens.org

*Schedule:

   No regular playing;
   all concerts are special events.

      The latest summer schedule of recitals and recitalists

*Remarks:

   Dedicated Memorial Day, 2001.
   The tower name is derived from its
   original contents: a 25-tone Deagan
   tubular chime (from 1930 to 1956).
   Practice keyboard, in another building,
   can be used to record for the
   automatic system.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 62 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the bass octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     A#C   /    A#C26 
   There is one missing bass semitone
   There is an identical practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 2001
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   Year of latest technical information source is 2001

*Links:

On the Longwood Gardens Website, there is a long page with the history of the organ and the carillon.

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 PA.

Index to all tower bell instruments in PA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 22-Aug-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/08/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2000/12/17

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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