2020/12/26 - Revised 100 site data pages and added 1 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Add tower photo for Goedereede, NL, courtesy of Jan Bezuijen.
Added two great bells in Spain.
Corrected the list of Deagan tubular chimes
and the list of tubular relocations
to show that the 1928 chime of the former Seventh Presbyterian Church in Walnut Hills,
Cincinnati, Ohio, which was for several decades stored at the G.A.Avril Company
in Cincinnati, is now in operation at the Verdin factory
in Cincinnati.
(This change should have been included in the 11/22 update package.)
Updated the disposition of the surviving bells of the defunct chime of Brockville, Ontario.
Added or revised Weblinks in the following pages without revising the database:
Johannesburg, South Africa, St.George's Church
Mumbai (Bombay), India
New York, NY, Grace Episcopal Church
Rye, NY
Houston, TX, Palmer Memorial Church
2020/12/10 -
Revised the site locator map routine to permit showing one or two nearby sites
in addition to the primary site.
This works only on the Google Maps customization;
other mapping services are unaffected.
The principal application for this function
will be for institutions that own more than one instrument.
Initial usage is for the entries in the North American
index to multi-instrument institutions,
which was also updated to add four pairs of instruments.
Also included:
BALLARAT - TH/1 : AUSTRALIA ring
BALLARAT - TH/2 : AUSTRALIA chime
MECHELEN - STR/1 : BELGIUM trad/great
MECHELEN - STR/2 : BELGIUM trad/great(3)
BETHUNE - BC/1 : FRANCE - 62 trad
BETHUNE - BC/2 : FRANCE - 62 trad?
VILLINGEN-SCHWENNINGEN - 1 : GERMANY-BRD chime
VILLINGEN-SCHWENNINGEN - 2 : GERMANY non-trad
DORDRECHT - G/1 : NETHERLANDS trad/great(5)
DORDRECHT - G/2 : NETHERLANDS ring
DORDRECHT - K : NETHERLANDS ring
MAFRA - N : PORTUGAL trad/great
MAFRA - S : PORTUGAL trad/great
SAINT PETERSBURG - CI/1 : RUSSIA non-trad
SAINT PETERSBURG - CI/2 : RUSSIA zvon
PRETORIA - CH/1 : S AFRICA tubular
PRETORIA - CH/2 : S AFRICA chime
MADRID - SF/1 : SPAIN ring
MADRID - SF/2 : SPAIN chime
Also revised that routine to suppress some of the visual clutter
that results from Google's default labeling of many "points of interest."
Revised the German index by states to show the state names that were used in East Germany during the period of partition (1949-1990).
2020/11/24 - Revised 16 site data pages and added 3 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Added or revised Weblinks in the following pages without revising the database:
Riverside, California
Bloomington, Indiana
Baltimore, Maryland
Reno, Nevada
Chatham, Ontario
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania
Kiev, Ukraine
Middlebury, Vermont
All rings in South Africa
Revised the regional locator map routine to display more statistics upon request.
Expanded the history of the McShane bell foundry.
Added the new WCF video to the home page.
2020/11/22 - Revised 22 site data pages and added 11 (see list or map), including the addition of one embedded great bell and integration of other great bells formerly listed as independent; revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Added or revised Weblinks in the following pages without revising the database:
Pamplona, Spain
Toledo, Spain
Seville, Spain
Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Fall River, Massachusetts, USA
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
The Hague, Netherlands
Ruther Glen/1, Virginia, USA
Ruther Glen/2, Virginia, USA
Johannesburg, South Africa
Added another entry to the page of potential philanthropy projects.
Added the Allanconi foundry to the bell foundries page.
Expanded the history section of the McShane foundry index page.
2020/11/12 -
Revised 20 site data pages and added 13
(see list
or map);
revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
NOTE: As of this update, all Petit & Fritsen installations
known to the Webmaster (i.e., having entries in the underlying database)
now have Webpages here.
What remains in the database without Webpages here yet are most chimes in Italy
as well as many pre-1991 Eijsbouts chimes in Germany and the Netherlands.
Added information about two defunct Meissen porcelain carillons to the Meissen factory index and the page about sites in Germany that are no more.
Deleted the site data page for the cathedral of Llandaff, Wales, upon discovering that it did not fit my criteria for listing chimes in the British Isles.
Revised the list of indexes to the British Isles to state more clearly the criteria for exclusion of instruments that would be included in any other part of the world.
Revised the overview of chime indexes to reflect the addition of three recent installations of rings in continental Europe.
2020/10/27 - Corrected the gazetteer links for almost all site data pages in the British Isles, and improved the locator map links for many of them.
Replaced the site data page for the defunct chime of Mount Zion Church,
Bridge of Weir, Scotland, with a paragraph in the page of
sites that are no more
in the British Isles.
Replaced the site data page for the defunct chime of St.George North Church,
Greenock, Scotland, with a paragraph in the page of
sites that are no more
in the British Isles.
Revised the main Introduction page, the Data Top page and three foundry listing pages, primarily to improve access to bellfoundry data.
Improved the linking of true glockenspiels to their index page.
Improved the Website Map.
2020/10/19 - Revised 16 site data pages and added 6 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Added photos and/or Weblinks to the following pages without revising the database:
Collie, Western Australia
Bad Salza, Germany
Kecskemét, Hungary
Wellington, NZ - War Memorial
Ottawa, Ontario - Peace Tower
Regina, SK - glockenspiel
Anniston, Alabama
Bloomington, Indiana - Metz
Bloomington, Indiana - music building
Dayton, Ohio - Deeds
Durham, NC - Duke University
Fort Washington, PA
New York, NY - Riverside
Newark, Ohio - 2nd Presbyterian
Added a new index for the B. A. Sunderlin Bell Foundry.
Expanded the history and other notes for the Petit & Edelbrock bellfoundry.
Revised the contact information and history of the McShane bell foundry company to reflect the current ownership and location.
Moved all German entries from the page of European sites that are no more into a new page of German sites that are no more, adding several entries for relocated instruments.
Corrected the counts in the headings of some regional locator maps, based on use of a new tool for analyzing the underlying XML files.
Added to the Goeppinger book research notes some new information about Kaye & Company, Louisville, Kentucky, and Kentucky Bell Co. in the same city, as well as a new entry for the Todd-Donigan Iron Company, Louisville, Kentucky.
Added a Greek bellfoundry to the list of foundries.
Revised the Data Top page slightly.
2020/10/01 - Fixed an indexing error in a keyboard range index.
2020/09/30 - Fixed an error in a page title.
2020/09/14 - Revised 20 site data pages and added 22 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Removed notes about the incompleteness of lists of non-traditionals in Germany.
Added 2 great bells contained in one peal.
2020/09/01 - Added to the home page the capability to invoke Google Translate on that page using any of the principal languages of countries associated with member societies of the World Carillon Federation as well as some of the languages for other countries where tower bell instruments can be found. On the translated home page, a warning about the limitations of Google Translate will appear in the new language. The same language translation will remain in effect as the visitor follows links to other pages on this Website, but not links from here to other Websites.
Added to the home page the ability to detect that a visitor is using a mobile device or other small screen and to present a warning that this Website is not optimized for such devices.
2020/08/30 - Improved cross-linking between lists of indexes by instrument type and lists of indexes by geographical region.
2020/08/20 - Revised 14 site data pages (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
2020/08/15 - Corrected the introduction to the index of porcelain tower chimes by Meissen and added some historical information.
Added some historical information to the Mabilon foundry index.
2020/08/14 - Updated the history of the Hooper/Blake bellfoundry, and corrected an error in the history of the Revere bellfoundry.
2020/08/08 - Constructed a new index to porcelain tower chimes using entries removed from the existing index to the work of miscellaneous bellfoundries. Initially, all entries represent the work of Meissen, but one or two other possibilities may exist.
Adjusted display widths of numerous pages for more uniform presentation.
2020/08/01 - Added indexes by keyboard ranges for traditional carillons around the world, together with a summary for the world of carillon sizes and keyboard ranges; all of the new indexes can be reached from that summary.
Revised clustering in the regional locator map for Belgium so that all top-level clusters represent provinces.
Added a note regarding Pugh & Russell to page 141 of Neil Goeppinger's book.
Improved consistency of style of city names for independent great bells in regional locator maps.
2020/07/27 - Revised 10 site data pages (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Corrected the remark about placement of a comma in the name of Blymyer, Norton & Co. on page 69 of Neil Goeppinger's book.
Fixed typos in most of the indexes by weight (pitch) for traditional carillons.
2020/07/22 - Revised 21 site data pages and added 55 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
2020/07/13 - Revised 19 site data pages and added 12, combining two Echternach pages into one (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Corrected the link to George Dawson's spreadsheet of Naylor-Vickers bells.
Add Waymarking Weblinks to many site data pages (not itemized).
2020/07/01 - Added 2 great bells in Europe (already listed) to the regional maps
Restyled the gazetteer link in 360 site data pages (not itemized) for improved accessibility on small screens.
Supplied missing values for one index by weight.
2020/06/27 - Revised 71 site data pages and added 15 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Revised the weight of one great bell in the Netherlands, which caused changes in some other sequence numbers.
Improved the text of the Help page for regional locator maps.
2020/06/19 -
Added two new features to the regional locator map systems:
(1) When an instrument contains a great bell cast by a different maker than the majority
of the instrument, the text in the info window for that site may offer the choice
of opening the site data page for the instrument or going to the descriptive paragraph
in the list of great bells for that region.
(2) When the location of an instrument is uncertain, the info window for that site
will report that "zoom is limited," meaning that the associated maptack will disappear
when the map is zoomed in too closely.
These features are now described in the Help window for regional locator maps.
Updated the locator map links in four lists of great bells; resolved several inconsistencies in indexing of great bells and site data pages; mapped several listed great bells (not itemized).
Celebrated 55 years of happy marriage.
2020/06/05 - Updated the locator map links in 264 site data pages (not itemized).
Updated 40 indexes and miscellaneous pages (not itemized) to repair broken links internal to the Website.
2020/06/03 - Added the great bell of Perpignan, France (list and map).
Removed update index map links from one old news page, and fixed a variety of broken links (not itemized).
2020/06/01 - Removed newly-added summaries for Italy, as that data should be incorporated with the rest of Europe; revised the two corresponding summaries for Europe accordingly; made all other regional summaries accessible from all lists-of-indexes pages.
Updated the North American summary of pitch vs. number in chimes, and added a similar summary for each of the other regions of the world.
Updated the North American summary of bellfounders' work in non-traditional carillons, and added a similar summary for each of the other regions of the world.
Added a new summary showing the distribution of instruments by type (and great bells) by country within Europe.
Added a new world summary for chimes. All of the new and revised summaries cited here can be found from the main summaries page.
Made hardcopy (PDFs) available from all lists-of-indexes pages.
Improved standardization of display in lists-of-indexes pages.
2020/05/28 - Updated all summaries that are common to regions of the world and added new world summaries for traditional and non-traditional carillons. Updated the North American summary of bellfounders' work in non-traditional carillons, and added a similar summary for each of the other regions of the world, including for the first time Italy. Updated the North American summary of pitch vs. number in non-traditional carillons, and added a similar summary for each of the other regions of the world, including for the first time Italy. Restyled the remaining summaries that are unique to the regions of the Americas, as well as 54 index lists and 14 miscellaneous pages.
Improved the wording of several paragraphs in the Data Top pages
2020/05/25 - Responded to a privacy request by revising one site data page, replacing the PDF of Western Hemisphere traditional carillons and updating the Hardcopy page.
2020/05/20 - Installed new versions of the site locator map routines so that accented characters in place names can be displayed properly. The prior versions of those routines remain in place for use by those sita data pages that have not been revised to use the new version. Visitors to this Website should see no changes in maps, though some HTML filenames will be different in the location fields of Web browsers.
Revised 97 site data pages and added 67
(see list
or map,
which include only those revisions that were substantive);
revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
All database entries for France now have pages on this Website;
all such pages were revised to omit department numbers from Location sections,
since they are already included in the Country field.
Added a foundry index for
Cornille-Havard of France,
moving existing entries for that foundry out of the Miscellaneous foundries index
and the corresponding sections of regional foundry indexes.
Updated map links for 6 additional sites in Paris, France (not itemized).
All site data pages for France now use the new versions of the site locator map routines.
Added several great bells in France.
Revised the Bellfoundries index advice page to clarify what is not included in such indexes.
Replaced the Introduction PDF in the Hardcopy section, so that the code for Cornille-Havard is explained; also replaced the France PDF. An enhancement to the report-generator program that produces the basis for such PDFs adds a line of statistics about the data from which plots of bourdon code or treble code versus number of bells are produced.
Revised the main page about unrelated essays, and added another essay.
2020/05/04 - Replaced authorization token for Apple Maps with a current version.
Added an explanation of longitude sign conventions to the hardcopy page, and made small revisions at various places in its text.
Corrected errors in the sort order in the index of German traditional carillons by weight (pitch).
2020/04/26 - Added a new essay.
2020/04/21 - Replaced the site data page for St.James Episcopal Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a paragraph in the Relocated Chimes section of the page about North American sites that are no more; revised 43 site data pages and added 6 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly. This included updating the two graphs in the historical index for North American traditional carillons, which are now on track to reach 189 in number. Were it not for the instruments that have been degraded, this region would now have 198 such instruments.
Revised the notes regarding incompleteness in 8 assorted foundry indexes.
Added Weblinks to a variety of site data pages (not itemized here).
2020/04/16 - Added a new entry for Belknap to the research notes for Goeppinger's book, with a corresponding addition to Appendix 1.
Added a foundry locator map to the index pages for the Eijsbouts, Grassmayr, Meeks & Watson, Olsen, Paccard, Rincker, Rüetschi and Taylor bellfoundries.
Added to the Glossary the terms "belfry" (subordinate to "campanile") and "stationary peal" (subordinate to "peal").
Added a pair of video links to the Meneely/Troy index page (following the History section).
Improved some of the text of the page about keyboard ranges.
Restyled 44 index pages, as well as 15 assorted text pages.
2020/04/12 - Revised 14 site data pages and added 2 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Corrected the weight and origin of the great bass bell of the Middelburg NL carillon, and adjusted the numbering of European great bells acordingly.
Added Weblinks to, or removed them from, a variety of site data pages (not enumerated here).
2020/04/10 - Revised 15 site data pages (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
2020/04/09 - Added an entry for West Auckland NZ to the page of Asia-Pacific sites that are no more.
Added several independent great bells around the world, and mapped some others already listed.
Fixed a grammatical error in Notation for chimes and rings.
2020/04/03 - Re-styled 118 indexes and miscellaneous pages.
Split 2019 news into the separate history file referenced below, to save space here.
2020/03/31 - Revised 50 site data pages, added 10 and relocated 1 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Revised the regional map system to handle instruments with another level of complexity.
Added one great bell in Germany, and mapped many of those already listed.
Added Ciudad Real, Madrid, Wuppertal and Zurich to the index of glockenspiels.
2020/03/24 - Revised the Privacy Policy page to clarify the wording of both the privacy policy itself and the policy regarding use of cookies. There has been no change in the practical substance of either policy.
Added 3 great bells of the Netherlands (#75, #93, #94) and 2 independent great bells of North America (Deerfield IL, Washington DC); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
2020/03/18 - Revised 31 site data pages and added 1 (see list or map), most of which are also included in a new index of war memorials, peace carillons, etc. and a corresponding world map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
2020/03/16 - Added a new page about Characters to explain the complexities of correctly displaying characters from various languages on this Website.
2020/03/09 - Provided updated (and now complete) versions of the downloadable PDFs for Eastern and Western hemisphere traditional carillons; see the Hardcopy page, which was also updated in other respects.
2020/03/02 - Revised 10 site data pages and added 1 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Added links to the internal cross-references in the list of great bells in Great Britain.
Reorganized and expanded the Table of Contents in the Data Top page.
Added commentary to the entry for Veazey & White on the final page about Goeppinger's book.
Added a description of Maltese stationary peals to the corresponding section about Maltese great bells.
Provided a name for the great bell of Cuzco, Peru.
Demoted the great bell of Kyongju, South Korea, from 5th place to 19th place among great bells of Oriental profile based on report of actual weighing rather than on estimates derived from measurements.
Completed restyling of foundry index pages.
2020/02/27 - Removed the site data page for the defunct Taylor chime of Brockville, Ontario, replacing it with a paragraph in the list of sites that are no more; revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Added to the Asia-Pacific region another great bell of Oriental profile.
Revised links to other Websites in 21 site data pages (not itemized); also updated locator map links as needed.
2020/02/18 -
Added a quick links table to the
Great Bells main page.
Added four great bells in Malta;
revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Moved great bells of Russia out of the
regional locator map for Europe
into a new
regional locator map for Russia.
Added further details about the National Bell Foundry to the research notes for Goeppinger's book.
Revised links to other Websites in 15 site data pages (not itemized); also updated locator map links for 10 of them.
2020/02/13 -
Re-mapped all great bells in the British Isles,
adding a
regional locator map for them
and integrating them into the corresponding
general regional locator map.
Integrated independent great bells in North America into the corresponding
general regional locator map subsystem.
Revised the main page about great bells
to provide links to all appropriate sections of the
great bells regional locator map system.
Revised a statement in the left side of the quick reference block of the
data top page
to indicate that independent great bells are now included in the
overall regional locator map system.
2020/02/11 - Integrated Western profile great bells in the Asia/Pacific region into the corresponding general regional map. This integration process remains incomplete for some continental regions.
Improved the statistics display popup for regional maps.
2020/02/10 - Completed mapping of all Western profile great bells in the Asia/Pacific region, in both the list and the regional map for such bells. (Oriental profile great bells in the same region remain incomplete.)
2020/02/05 - Removed index maps from 2016 news page.
2020/02/03 - Repaired missing and erroneous map links in the list of Other Great Bells in North America, and provided it with a link to the corresponding regional map.
Revised all area lists of indexes for consistency of presentation.
2020/01/31 - Revised 8 site data pages and added 1 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Reorganized the Netherlands Antilles in the Index by country to Central and South America; changed Filipsburg to Philipsburg to adapt to modern usage; renamed file ANORANJE.HTM to ANORNJHM.HTM
Made the regional locator map set for great bells accessible from the
Great Bells main page.
Completed mapping of independent great bells for North and South America
(with some approximations), adding what will become the largest bell
in the Americas.
Replaced obsolete MultiMap links (and others) in
Great Bells of the British Isles
with map service selector links.
Revised headings of regional locator maps to report how many great bells
are contained in the region.
Revised various area lists of indexes for improved consistency of style and improved access to the appropriate parts of regional locator map sets.
2020/01/27 - Revised 43 site data pages and added 1 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Modified the Search page to focus automatically on the form field.
Added a Netherlands Antilles site to the index of glockenspiels
Added details about the great bell of Valleyfield, Quebec.
2020/01/17 - Revised the Goeppinger book commentary with respect to the Blakes (pp.66-67).
Corrected the identification of the Salisbury MD carillon in various indexes.
2020/01/11 -
Revised the site locator map system to allow the visitor to choose any of six
worldwide mapping services, with options for two regional mapping services
where appropriate, all via a new
Mapping
Service Selection page.
Revised the Map Systems FAQ page
accordingly.
Added a new Map Services
Features page, thereby obsoleting the existing
Maps Comparison page,
which is retained for historical purposes.
Revised the user guide that is built into Google site locator maps
to fit Google's changes in the human interface.
Revised the Privacy Policy page to add a section on our use of cookies, which are required to remember the newly-offered mapping service choices.
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