Summary for North America: pitch

The diagram below presents a summary of the 183 North American traditional carillons according to the pitch of the bourdon (principal bass bell, ignoring any sub-bourdon) when that is known. (One is unknown at present.) The middle two lines represent the keys of a keyboard according to their names and approximate positions. Above the "black notes" and below the "white notes" are the numbers of traditional carillons which have a bass bell of the corresponding pitch.

The first note on the left is an octave below middle C; a bell of this pitch weighs about 20 tons.


  1   3     3   1  17     3   16    3   2   8     .   .     .   .   .

  #   #     #   #   #     #   #     #   #   #     #   #     #   #   #   
C   D   E F   G   A   B C   D   E F   G   A   B C   D   E F   G   A   B C

1   .   2 .  14   3   5 38 12   7 8  10   7   2 12  2   . 1   .   .   . 1

\---  bass octave  ---/ \--- middle octave ---/ \--- treble octave ---/ !

Weight unknown:  1

To see which instruments correspond to a particular note, look at the index according to pitch for this region.

This diagram is on the same scale as the corresponding summary for rings.

Return to Summaries for North America.

[GCNA Home Page] [Site data top page] [Credits and Disclaimers] [Feedback]

This page was created 1997/02/15 and last revised 2011/01/14.

Please send comments or questions to csz_stl@swbell.net