Shelmerdine Memorial Carillon
*Location:
First United Methodist Church
of Germantown
6001 Germantown Avenue,
at East High Street
Germantown,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
LL: N 40.03964, W 75.17781
*Player:
Janet Tebbel, (C)
Carillonneur and Assistant Organist
431 West Walnut Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19144-3714
H: (215)848-3915
E: tebbj@comcast.net
*Past carillonneurs:
W.Lawrence Curry Robert Kleinschmidt 1950s Jim Angell 19??-75 Fran Rogers
*Contact:
First United Methodist Church
of Germantown
6001 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19144-2192
T: (215)438-3677 F: (215)438-3077
E: office@fumcog.org*Schedule:
For Sunday services; summer guest series 1930 Mondays
The latest summer schedule of recitals and recitalists
*Remarks:
1990 renovation removed 15 duplicate trebles, which had been disconnected since before 1948.
*Technical data:
Traditional carillon of 50 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the bass octave
Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
Keyboard range: A#C / A#C 26
There is one missing bass semitone
The instrument was enlarged in 1990
with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
Prior history:
In 1927, the instrument was begun with 48 bells
by Taylor
Year of latest technical information source is 1991
*Links:
Church photos (from "Philadelphia Architects and Buildings" - subscription required to view large versions of the two images)
This is one of only eight carillons which were originally equipped with Taylor's doubled trebles.
Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Taylor bellfoundry,
in this region
and in the world.
Where the final phase of 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 concert class carillons by year of completion.
Index to all traditional carillons in PA.
Index to all tower bell instruments in PA.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 29-Sep-08 based on textual data last updated on 2008/08/24 and on technical data last updated on 1994/01/11
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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