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   Niven Memorial Carillon

*Location:

   Niven Memorial Tower
   Westminster Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)
   Augusta Street/Road at West Augusta Pl.
   Greenville, South Carolina, USA
   LL: N 34.8219, W 82.3902

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*Player:

   Nancy L. Smith

*Contact:

   Westminster Presbyterian Church
   2310 Augusta Street
   Greenville, SC  29605-1745
   T: (803)232-2424
   E: MKemp@wpc-online.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Some bells installed 1963.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 24 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up one octave
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   There is one missing bass semitone
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1964
     with bells made by vanBergen   
   Year of latest technical information source is 1978

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the original building and a tower that does not appear to contain bells; this instrument is not mentioned anywhere.  (A former version of the Website used to open with a photo of the building and a free-standing campanile.)

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 1979/01/17

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