PHILADELPHIA - HT : USA - PA

*Location:

   Holy Trinity Church (Episcopal)
   Walnut Street at Rittenhouse Square
   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 39.95031, W 75.17293

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*Player:

   Dr.John H. French, Choirmaster/Organist
   E: jfrench@ursinus.edu

*Contact:

   Robert Smart
   Holy Trinity Church
   1904 Walnut Street
   Philadelphia, PA  19103-5733
   T: (215)567-1267   F: (215)567-3766
   E: office@htrit.org

*Schedule:

   Automatic play daily at noon and 6pm

*Remarks:

   Original baton keyboard and mechanism
   were in ruins for many years, with
   only limited electric action; that
   keyboard is now in Verdin Bell Museum,
   Cincinnati.  Bells cast in 1882 by
   S.van Aerschodt, Louvain, Belgium.
   Total renovation by Verdin in 2000,
   with new manual keyboard first played
   in April 2001.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  2 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    ----  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The present keyboard was installed in 2000
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Prior history:
     In 1883, the complete instrument was installed
       with bells made by vanAerschodt
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003

Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.

*Links:

The church Website opens with a picture of the bell tower, and has a small page about the carillon (under Music).

Church photos (from "Philadelphia Architects and Buildings" - subscription required to view large versions of the two images)

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the vanAerschodt bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all North American traditional carillons by size (number of bells).

Index to all traditional carillons in PA.

Index to all tower bell instruments in PA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  5-Oct-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/10/05
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/02/28

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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