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Carillons, musical instruments of bells in the percussion family, are found throughout the United States. Several institutions register and count them. Some registries specialize in counting specific types of carillons. For example, the War Memorial and Peace Carillons registry counts instruments which serve as war memorials or were built in the name of promoting world peace.[1] TowerBells counts carillons played via a baton keyboard as "traditional carillons" and those with computerized or electronic mechanisms as "non-traditional carillons", among other bell instruments. It also publishes maps, technical specifications, and summary statistics.[2] As the World Carillon Federation does not consider non-traditional carillons to be carillons, it counts only those which are played via a baton keyboard and without computerized or electronic mechanisms.[3][4] According to TowerBells and the World Carillon Federation, there are about 170 existing traditional carillons in the United States.

The carillons in the United States, in Belgium, and in the Netherlands account for two-thirds of the world's total.[5]

Alabama

Arizona

California

The Carillon Bell Tower dominates the University of California, Riverside's main campus.

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Columbia

Robert Taft Memorial, Washington, DC

Florida

Century Tower. Gainesville, Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Rees Memorial Carillon
Springfield, Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

  • Ames: Stanton Memorial Carillon in the Campanile at Iowa State University, 1899. 50 bells by Taylor, originally built with 10 bells in 1899, with 26 more added in 1920, another 13 in 1954, and one final bell in 1967. Renovated in 1994.[26]
  • Cedar Falls: University of Northern Iowa Carillon in the Campanile at University of Northern Iowa, 1926. 47 bells by Meneely Bell Foundry, originally built with 15 bells in 1926, with 32 more added in 1968. Renovated in 1984 and 2007.[27]
  • Des Moines: The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Episcopal Cathedral Church of St. Paul | Des Moines,[28] Windsor Memorial Carillon. 25 bells in the Mary Belle Windsor Tower in downtown Des Moines. The 12 original bells were cast in 1896 by the McShane Foundry, Baltimore. Three additional bells were installed in 1989 and 10 more in 1991. These last 13 bells and the rebuild of the bell tower were a gift from the Windsor family, hence, the Windsor Memorial Carillon.[29]

Kansas

Kentucky

  • Berea: Berea College's Phelps-Stokes Chapel Carillon, 1970s 56 bells. It is the largest in the state of Kentucky.

Louisiana

  • Morgan City: Carillon Tower at Brownell Memorial Park, dedicated 1971. 106 feet tall with 61 bells.[31]

Maryland

Massachusetts

  • Amherst: The Henry Vincent Couper Memorial Carillon at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It has 42 bells and spans 312 octaves. Bells cast by the Royal Eijsbouts Bell Foundry of Asten in the Netherlands.[32]
  • Cohasset: Erected in 1924 with 23 bells, known as The Bancroft Memorial Carillon. Located in a gothic stone tower in St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Expanded in 1925, 1928 and then renovated and enlarged to 57 bells between 1989 and 1990 by the John Taylor Bell Foundry. Lowest bell, note G, weighs 11,280 pounds while the smallest bell, note E, weighs 29 pounds.
  • Fall River: The Durfee Carillon Bell Tower at BMC Durfee High School, 23 bells, including 9 historic Meneely bells from the first Durfee High School 1880's
  • Gloucester: Our Lady of Good Voyage Church.
  • Medford: Goddard Chapel Carillon, Tufts University Chaplaincy.
  • Northampton: Dorothea Carlile Memorial Carillon, College Hall at Smith College, 47 bells ranging in weight from 24 to 2,800 pounds.
  • Northfield: McRoberts Memorial Carillon, Russell Sage Chapel at Northfield Campus, Northfield Mount Hermon School[33] This 55-bell carillon has now been relocated to the Rhodes Arts Center on the Mount Hermon campus in Mount Hermon, MA.[34]
  • Norwood: Norwood Memorial Municipal Building – 50 bells, heaviest 3,556 kg (7,840 lb), Gillett & Johnston 1928/1935 and John Taylor & Co 1983[35]
  • Wellesley: Wellesley College Carillon at Wellesley College installed in 1931, renovated in 1984, last enlarged in 1990. 32 bells by Taylor.

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey


New York

Fredonia, NY University of New York College at Fredonia, carrillon

North Carolina

Ohio

Deeds Carrilon, Ohio

Oklahoma

Pennsylvania

South Carolina

  • Charleston: The Carillon and Thomas Dry Howie Tower at The Citadel has 59 bells weighing from 25 to 4,400 pounds and a total of 25,000 pounds, and were originally cast in 1795 at the Bergen Bell foundry in the Netherlands. Installed in 1954, as of 2022 only 18 bells are playable.[66]
  • Clemson: The Clemson University Memorial Carillon. 48 handcrafted bells, located in the tower of Tillman Hall at Clemson University.
  • Greenwood: The Callie Self Memorial Baptist Church Carillon. 37 bells in a 3-octave scale. Bells cast by the Van Bergen Bellfoundries, Heiligerlee, Netherlands. Restored in the 1990s over a one-year period by L. Eckert, a then employee of the foundry's US Office[67] based in Charleston, SC.

South Dakota

  • Brookings: South Dakota State University, Coughlin Campanile. 1926.

Tennessee

Linnie M. Barger Carillon on the campus of St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church, Ooltewah, Tennessee.

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

  • Vancouver: Salmon Run Bell Tower at Esther Short Park, 2002. 35 bells cast by Royal Eijsbouts, Netherlands. Electric action with glockenspiel display.
  • Spokane: The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, 49 bells, cast and installed by John Taylor and Sons of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England.

West Virginia

  • Athens: The Marsh Memorial Carillon, 1997 at Concord University. 48 bells by Paccard, a gift from former Concord President Dr Joseph Marsh.

Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin–Madison Carillon Tower

See also

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