GREEN BAY : USA - WI

   Kaap Memorial Carillon

*Location:

   First Evangelical Lutheran Church
     (WELS)
   South Monroe Avenue at Lawe Street
   Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
   LL: N 44.5039, W 88.0181

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*Player:

   Ruth Rose 
  - and -
   Denise Schleis

*Contact:

   First Evangelical Lutheran Church
   743 South Monroe Avenue
   Green Bay, WI  54301
   T: (920)435-7970
   E: pschleis@new.rr.com  [pastor]

*Schedule:

   Before Thursday evening and Sunday
   morning services (live);
   daily 1155 & 1755 (automatic)

      The latest summer schedule of recitals and recitalists

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 47 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     G C 42/    C G   
   There are two missing bass semitones
   There is a non-identical practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1957
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 1984

*Links:

The church Website has a small photo of the building, but says nothing about the carillon.

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).
Ranking among all North American concert class carillons by age.

Index to all traditional carillons in WI.

Index to all tower bell instruments in WI.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  7-Jun-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/06/06
   and on technical data last updated on 1975/07/20

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