2019/12/30 - Restyled index pages specific to traditional carillons.
2019/12/21 - Restyled the data top page, all of the great bells pages and most miscellaneous pages similarly, also revising external links (but not locator maps) to open in separate pages or tabs.
2019/12/20 - Restyled area index lists similarly, removing notes about planned additional indexes, and reordering links for consistency of presentation.
Restyled "unrelated" essays similarly, along with a few map-related pages. However, some functionally obsolete map advice pages have not been restyled.
2019/12/19 - Restyled pages in the root directory for consistency and proper centering; because none of the content was changed, the revision dates for those files were generally not changed.
2019/12/17 - Revised the document type and/or character set encoding of numerous indexes, summaries and miscellaneous pages for consistency of style and for proper display of some accented characters; because none of the content was changed, the revision dates for those files were generally not changed.
2019/12/09 - Moved the Goeppinger book announcement from the home page to a new page about bell-related books, including another announcement of a new book.
Revised 8 site data pages and added 32 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Added a paragraph on the early history of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry.
2019/10/31 - Revised 77 site data pages (see list or map) to correct hyphenation of Dutch province names Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland and Noord-Brabant; indexes and regional maps were unaffected. Since no substantive changes to the database were made, no announcement message was sent for this update.
Changed "none posted yet" to "none known" in many index categories.
2019/10/29 - Revised 2 site data pages and added 6 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Deleted the page of "sites that are no more" for Denmark, merging its sole entry into the similar page for Europe, to which several other entries were also added.
Expanded the history of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry.
Revised locator map routine to handle locations for which the "fix it" option is not appropriate.
Added alphabetic sectioning to the index of traditional carillons in the Netherlands by city name.
2019/09/30 - Revised 42 site data pages (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Removed the site data page for the anticipated ring at Pauli Murray Residential College, Yale University, as that has turned out to be an unsubstantiated rumor.
2019/09/26 - Revised 16 site data pages (see list or map); revised affected indexes accordingly. (Regional maps were unaffected.)
Added a great bell in Viet Nam.
Revised the Vanduzen foundry history with respect to the name of G.W.Coffin.
Updated the contact information for the American agent for the Paccard bellfoundry.
Improved the styling of several pages in the root directory.
2019/09/20 - Revised 56 site data pages, added 4 and replaced Sugar Grove OH with Venice FL (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly. All traditional carillons of the Netherlands (and the world) are now listed.
Added a new great bell in North America
Changed status of Otterbein UMC in the Deagan sites page.
Split 2018 news into the separate history file referenced below, to save space here.
2019/06/22 - Corrected the foundry attribution for the great bell of Edmond, Oklahoma.
Revised the list of geographic indexes for traditional carillons to include the index of travelling carillons.
2019/06/20 - Revised 8 site data pages and added 41 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Revised the sort order of Dutch city names with "IJ" to conform to modern usage.
2019/05/28 - Revised link text for info windows in regional maps.
Standardized widths of many pages in the home directory.
2019/05/13 - Added a set of regional locator maps solely for the great bells of the world, as well as a FAQ page describing and explaining the customized map systems used here; revised the Data Top page (both standalone and frames versions) accordingly.
Added material to the entries for James Doolittle, for A.F.Shapleigh and for Ward, Bartholomew & Brainard in the Goeppinger book.
2019/05/10 - Redesigned some map-tack icons (map pins) for regional maps, added some, and revised the regional map help page, both in support of forthcoming changes regarding great bells.
Regional maps in the "traditional carillon" system (starting here) will now present a visual indication of which instruments contain great bells, and the number of such bells will be stated in the info window for each site.
Added a Statistics button to regional locator maps; for an example, see North America traditional carillons.
Added some locator maps to the page of great bells in Germany.
NOTE: Although the regional mapping system now has the capability to show the locations of individual great bells as well as those embedded in various kinds of instruments, little of this information has been added to that system.
2019/05/02 - Revised 2 site data pages and added 15 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
2019/04/26 - Added a new paragraph to the end of the Website history.
Revised "Fixit" text in site locator map routine.
Removed update locator maps from 2015 news; update lists remain.
2019/04/19 - Revised 49 site data pages and added 32 (see list or map)' revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
2019/04/05 - Rewrote the explanation on the second page of the supplementary information on weights.
Fixed clustering in several regional locator maps, and revised the text of the Help window for such maps to add a section on "Using Google's standard map controls".
2019/03/31 - Added a new independent great bell in North America (#16).
Added a link and a locator map to the great bell of Sydney General Post Office.
2019/03/15 - Revised 20 site data pages (see list or map), no indexes or regional maps were affected.
Revised the history of the chime at Trinity/Wall Street based on newly discovered newspaper articles.
2019/03/02 - Revised 26 site data pages and added 8 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Added locator map to the largest known great bell in South America.
Added three basses from the great peal of Utrecht to the great bells of Europe.
Corrected numbering in western-profile great bells in the Asia-Pacific area.
Added date of marriage of C.D.Meneely to the Hanks-Meneely genealogy.
2019/02/05 - Corrected remarks regarding the disposition of the Vanduzen chime exhibited at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
2019/01/25 - Revised 19 site data pages and added one (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
2019/01/16 -
Revised the Deagan sites page
and the page of tubular sites that are no more
to reflect new information from Jack Gercken about his father's activities
as a tower chime installer for the J.C.Deagan company, as well as the donations
of four sets of tubes to various symphony orchestras.
Revised 50 site data pages
(see list
or map) and deleted three,
for the same reasons;
revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
2019/01/10 - Added the Westley Group (UK) to the Bellfoundries page.
Revised 9 site data pages (see list or map), no indexes or regional maps were affected.
Replaced most of the standard PDFs available for download, eliminating a few and adding a few, and revising the page about hardcopy; the set incorporates all database changes up to and including the current update package (see paragraph immediately above).
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