ABILENE - MMC : USA - TX

*Location:

   Radford Memorial Auditorium
   McMurry University
     (formerly McMurry College)
   South 15th Street & Sayles Boulevard
   Abilene, Texas, USA
   LL: N 32.43080, W 99.74914

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*Player:

   Dr. Wes Gomer, Professor of Organ   (A)
   4642 Marlboro Drive
   Abilene, TX  79606-5402
   E: wesgomer@hotmail.com

*Contact:

   McMurry University
   South 14th Street & Sayles Boulevard
   Abilene, TX  79697-0002
   T: (915)691-6200

*Schedule:

  (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Connected with United Methodist Church

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 35 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1952
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is unknown

*Links:

The carillon is barely mentioned on the university Website, but Radford Memorial Auditorium and its tower can easily be found on McMurry's campus map.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen 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 TX.

Index to all tower bell instruments in TX.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 11-Jun-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/06/01
   and on technical data last updated on 1975/07/20

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