HOUSTON - TLC : USA - TX

   Theresa Mohnke Memorial Carillon

*Location:

   Trinity Lutheran Church (LCMS)
   Houston Avenue at Kane Street
   Houston, Texas, USA
   LL: N 29.76600, W 95.37321
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*Player:

   Leslie Paulas
   - and -
   Jack Westmoreland
   E: cmarentw@ev1.net
*Past Carillonneurs:
   Robert and Michael Sterber
   Carol Jickling Lens   (C)

*Contact:

   Trinity Lutheran Church
   800 Houston Avenue
   Houston, TX  77007-7792
   T: (713)224-0684   F: (713)224-0685
   - or -
   Mary Mountford, Music Director
   E: mmountford@trinitydt.org

*Schedule:

  (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Some bells installed 1954.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up 10 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    C --  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1957
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

*Links:

The church Website has a partial picture of the building on the home page, but no information about the bells.

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 30-Jun-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/06/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/02/28


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