Tower Directory

A downloadable directory (7 MB) gives brief information about each of the North American carillons as follows:

• Part I: Carillons (traditional), by state/province and city, with location and brief description.
• Part II: Cast bell instruments with electric keyboards (non-traditional carillons), similarly organized and identified.

This downloadable edition differs from the printed edition in two significant respects. First, Part I includes photos of some of the towers. Although these appear to be small, they are in high resolution, and thus can be zoomed to a large size without losing detail. Second, the email addresses and Web URLs that appear in some entries are active links.

The technical information section provides detailed information about carillons and other tower bell instruments in North America and worldwide. It contains a page about each instrument, indexes to find those pages, lists of the work of various bell founders and much more. The introductory page there explains in detail what sorts of information are included and how that information is organized; it also provides a complete table of contents for that section.

A map of North American carillons displays a map tack for each instrument. Each map tack has a pop-up text balloon, which contains a brief identification and description and provides a link to the corresponding technical information page. That map is one component of a worldwide set of maps that collectively display the locations of all carillons in the world.

Also to be found in the technical information section is a similar worldwide set of locator maps, which together cover all types of tower bell instruments of eight or more bells.