Summaries of carillons and other tower-bell sites

There are many ways to summarize the available information about carillons, chimes, and other tower-bell sites.  We present here some simple tables or graphs which show

• for the world, numbers of instruments of each type for each region or country for which indexes exist (or will eventualy exist).  This might be consider a "master summary", since it counts everything in the database which underlies this Website, including many sites for which data pages have not yet been posted.

• State or province (in North America) vs. size, for traditional carillons.  This also shows the total number of traditional carillons for each state/province, totals for the region and for each size group, and some other miscellaneous facts which can be deduced from the summary table.

• state or province (in North America) vs. size, for non-traditional carillons.  This also shows the total number of non-traditional carillons for each state/province, totals for the region and for each size group, and some other miscellaneous facts which can be deduced from the summary table.

• state or province (in North America) vs. type of instrument.  This also shows the total number of instruments for each state/province, totals for the region and for each type, and some other miscellaneous facts which can be deduced from the summary table.

• the distribution by bourdon pitch, i.e., numbers of instruments which start from a certain note (regardless of size), for traditional carillons in North America only.

• the distribution of instruments by bourdon pitch vs. number of bells and by treble pitch vs. number of bells,
  for North American traditional carillons,
  for North American non-traditional carillons,
  and for North American chimes (separately plotted for baton keyboards and all other actions).

• a summary by decade and founder - the distribution of North American chime installations according to when they were made and by whom.

• bellfounder's contributions to instruments [PLANNED]

• ? [POSSIBLE]

We welcome suggestions about other kinds of summary or statistical information which you would like to see presented here.  Use the email link on the bottom line of this page to submit them.

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