SELLERSVILLE : USA - PA

*Location:

   Schulmerich Carillons, Inc.
   South Main Street (PA Hwy 152)
   Sellersville, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 40.34988, W 75.30292

   Ward-Belmont School
   Nashville, Tennessee, USA
   (See also:   NASHVILLE - BU,  USA - TN)

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*Player:

   Rev. R. Bruce Todd

*Contact:

   Nevin Scholl, President
   Schulmerich Carillons, Inc.
   *parcel:
     Carillon Hill / 1 Carillion Hill Road
     Sellersville, PA  18960
   *postal:
     PO Box 903
     Sellersville, PA  18960-0903
   F: (215)257-7087   T: (800)772-3557
                             <77-BELLS>
   E: HomeOffice@SchulmerichBells.com

*Schedule:

  (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 23 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  8 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    C C 11
   There are two missing bass semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1952
     with bells made by Gillett & Johnston in 1928
   Year of latest technical information source is 1970

*Links:

Schulmerich's commercial Website covers the full range of the company's products--tower bells (from Eijsbouts), handbells (their own), electronic devices, tower structures--but does not mention nor picture the two-octave Gillett & Johnston carillon on their property.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Gillett & Johnston 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).

Index to all traditional carillons in PA.

Index to all tower bell instruments in PA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 30-Jun-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/06/12
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/05/09

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