CLINTON : USA - SC

   Bailey Memorial Carillon

*Location:

   Bailey Memorial Bell Tower
   First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)
   East Carolina Avenue (US Highway 76)
     at South Owens Street
   Clinton, South Carolina, USA
   LL: N 34.47122, W 81.87523

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   First Presbyterian Church
   *parcel:
     410 East Carolina Avenue
     Clinton, SC  29325-2525
   *postal:
     PO Drawer 29
     Clinton, SC  29325-0029
   T: (864)833-1062
   E: firstpres@backroads.net

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Keyboard in second story of tower.
   Inoperative (Oct.'03) from lightning.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 35 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  7 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1973
     with bells made by vanBergen   
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003

*Links:

Photo of church

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

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in SC.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 21-Apr-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/04/20
   and on technical data last updated on 2003/11/20

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