WACO - BU/2 : USA - TX 

   McLane Carillon

*Location:

   Presley Tower
   Pat Neff Hall (Administration)
   Baylor University
   Founder's Mall
   (7th Street at Baylor Avenue)
   Waco, Texas, USA
   LL: 31.54572, W 97.12165
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*Player:

   Lynnette G. Geary   (C)
   916 Susan Street
   Waco, TX  76706-4931
   H: (254)662-4523   W: (254)710-3361
   F: (254)710-3639
   E: Lynnette_Geary@Baylor.edu
*Past Carillonneurs: 
   1988-2006 Dr. Herbert Colvin   (C)

*Contact:

   School of Music
   Baylor University
   Waco, TX  76798

*Schedule:

  (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Swinging bells are bass C,D,E.
   Carillon replaced a 25-note Deagan
   tubular chime from 1939 (see BU/1).

*Technical data: 

   Traditional carillon of 48 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    C C 24
   There is one missing bass semitone
   There is an identical practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1988
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

*Links:

The Baylor Website includes an illustrated carillon page.  Use the Search facility (on the BU home page) to find other news releases about carillon-related events here.
Pat Neff Hall appears at #25 on south section of the campus map.

Building photos from Emporis Buildings
(Also see our Emporis Advice.)

The tubular chime which was originally in this tower is now at Uniontown, OH.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard 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).
Ranking among all North American concert class carillons by age.

Index to all traditional carillons in TX.

Index to all tower bell instruments in TX.

*Status: 

   This page was built from the database on  6-Sep-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/10/05
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/02/25

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