ATHENS : USA - WV 

   The Marsh Family Memorial Carillon

*Location:

   Joseph F. Marsh Hall
     (Administration Building)
   Concord University
     (was Concord College)
   East Vermillion Street (Co.Hwy.9)
   Athens, West Virginia, USA
   LL: N 37.4244, W 81.0072
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*Player:

   Jesse Ratcliffe
   T: (304)575-9027
   E: jlr@musician.org
*Past carillonneur: 
    1997-?? Jane W. Smith

*Contact:

   Concord College
   PO Box 1000
   Athens, WV  24712-1000
   T: (888)384-5249   F: (304)384-9044
   E: info@concord.edu

*Schedule:

   Electronic playback system with MIDI
   capability plays a tune hourly; also
   1730-45 daily during Standard time,
   1915-30 daily during Daylight Savings,
   also 1230 Sat. & Sun.

*Remarks:

   Dedicated 10 Oct 1997 by R. Austin.
   Practice keyboard uses MIDI for sound
   production.

*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 1997
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 1998

*Links:

The College's own Website has a sketch of the new belfry in its upper left corner.  There is a page that gives the full history of the carillon.  One of the series of photos which alternate on the Visitors page shows the Administration Building and the belfry.

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 WV.

Index to all tower bell instruments in WV.

*Status: 

   This page was built from the database on 11-Feb-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/01/09
   and on technical data last updated on 1998/03/01

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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