HUNTINGTON : USA - WV 

   Thornburg Carillon [sic]

*Location:

   James E. Morrow Library 
   Marshall University 
   Third Avenue, east of Hal Greer Blvd.
   Huntington, West Virginia, USA

*Player:

   Vicki P. Stroeher 
   Department of Music 
   Marshall University 
   1 John Marshall Drive 
   Huntington, WV  25755 
   W: (304)696-6437 
   E: stroeherv@marshall.edu

*Contact:

   Marshall University 
   400 Hal Greer Boulevard 
   Huntington, WV  25755 
   T: (304)696-3170  [general info.] 
   - or - 
   Dale Osburn 
   Physical Plant 
   W: (304)696-6616

*Remarks:

   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters.

*Technical data: 

   Electric-keyboard chime of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1983
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2001

*Links:

The Marshall University Website includes a picture of Morrow Library, but the cupola housing the chime is barely visible. A page of miscellaneous photos includes one of the commemorative bell outside Morrow Library, relating the fact of the Thornburgs' gift. The pitch of this bell is C#, just a halftone higher than the bass bell of the chime.

Very large photos of Morrow Library (463KB), the commemorative bell (683KB), and the Paccard/vanBergen monogram (870KB)on that bell.

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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 chimes by size (number of bells).

Index to all tower bell instruments in WV.

*Status: 

   This page was built from the database on 23-Apr-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/04/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/11/09

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