2023/12/30 - Fixed numerous internal and external link errors (not enumerated).
2023/12/28 -
Improved the visibility of zvons through
the addition of a set of indexes to zvons
(paralleling similar existing sets for more common types of instruments),
the revision of regional map titling
and the addition of a world-wide
regional map for zvons.
The last of those changes required expanding the
Map Systems page, which was given further
(and unrelated) minor improvements.
Made a number of minor revisions to the Data Top page, most notably the temporary suspension of the hardcopy/PDF service.
Regularized text that mentions non-indexing by foundry, for various reasons, in 106 site data pages (not itemized).
2023/12/05 - Regenerated 632 site data pages covering all known multi-phase instruments, to show complete known technical details of phases prior to the most current one. (All other site data pages — more than 2500 — are for single-phase instruments.) This includes 17 site data pages (see list) for instruments which had been updated in the database but were by error not posted to the Website; the remaining 615, being essentially unchanged, are not itemized. An enhancement to the report-generator program enabled these changes to be made; this eliminates the need for references to hardcopy for further details of an instrument's prior history. At the same time, telephone and fax numbers for such sites in the USA and Canada were re-formatted for mandatory 10-digit dialing, though the matching revisions of the underlying database were not date-stamped. In addition, site locator map links in those pages were modernized where appropriate.
Substantially improved the history of the Holbrook bellfoundry.
2023/11/18 - Revised 7 site data pages (see list or map); these changes from the database should have been posted more than two years ago.
Fixed mapping errors for Kubinka, Russia.
Corrected sequence numbers for some great bells of Germany.
2023/11/04 - Revised 13 site data pages and added 1 (see list or map);
Supplied 40 missing gazetteer links (not itemized).
2023/11/01 - Revised 15 site data pages and added 8 (see list or map); 2 great bells were added (one new, one previously ignored); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Added a new entry to the page about bell books.
Expanded the discussion of "carillonneur" vs. "carillonist" in the Glossary.
Split 2022 news into the separate history file referenced below, to save space here.
Added or fixed several great bell links from their instrument pages (not enumerated).
2023/10/21 - Revised 9 site data pages and added 5 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Added a new page of Summaries of makers of carillons, etc.
Updated the lists of miscellaneous foundries that do not have their own indexes.
Added a paragraph to the Map Systems page to explain the varying availability of the mapping services that can be used for site locator maps, and made a variety of other minor improvements to that page.
Reorganized the Contents section of the Data Top page.
2023/09/25 - Revised 38 site data pages (including recategorization of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX) and added 1 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Added a variety of external links to various site data pages that were not updated in the database, and therefore are not enumerated here.
2023/09/19 - Revised 49 site data pages and added 9 (see list or map); deleted one (Music School, Vleuten NL); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
2023/08/21 -
Revised 54 site data pages and added 45
(see list
or map);
revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
All pages for traditional carillons in Germany have been revised to link to the
appropriate page on the current DGV Website, whether or not they were otherwise updated
in the database.
Added a new page listing degraded European tower bell instruments.
Clarified the conventions used for telephone number area codes, in the page about standard format for site data pages, and made various other minor improvements to wording there.
2023/07/31 - Revised 45 site data pages and added 20 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Updated links on some site data pages (not enumerated, though telephone numbers have been reformatted in the database).
Revised the worldwide summary of instruments by country and type.
2023/06/22 - Corrected character encoding in 34 assorted pages (not itemized); modernized locator map links where needed.
2023/06/10 -
Updated the Website map to reflect changes in the past
four years.
Revised the Data Top page to provide a more visible link
to the recently added page about Wanamaker bells,
which itself was revised slightly.
2023/05/30 - Revised 21 site data pages and added 1 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
2023/05/16 - Fixed several broken links, and improved a few locator maps for great bells not in carillons.
Removed to archive all update lists for 2010.
2023/05/11-13 - Changed to UTF-8 the page encoding of all root pages and essays, as well as some text pages in the data section, to make it easier to verify that the public Website matches private mirrors (which are on Macintosh machines).
Fixed several broken links.
2023/04/29 - Added a new Error 404 handler to cope with all known "deleted" site data pages.
2023/04/23 - Revised 26 site data pages, renamed one and added one (see list or map); removed the site data page for the Deagan tubular chime reported to be in Shalom Baptist Church in Philadelphia PA, upon discovering that this congregation is a successor in the building that once held the Reformed Episcopal Memorial Church of Our Redeemer; replaced the site data page for the Deagan tubular chime of the former Linwood Presbyterian Church in Kansas City MO with a paragraph in the page about sites that are no more; revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Expanded the entry for the Todd-Donigan Iron Company (Louisville, KY) in the research notes for the Goeppinger book based on a report of another bell bearing that firm's name.
Added a new article about Wanamaker bells.
Supplied missing links to Italy pages in the worldwide list of Summaries.
Corrected the "What's New" links on the Data Top pages (with and without frames).
2023/03/18 - Revised 25 site data pages and added 4 (see list or map); removed the site data page for the McShane chime in Shenandoah PA, replacing it with a paragraph in the page about sites that are no more; revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Revised the Tower Bells introductory page to explain more clearly what we do or do not list with respect to peals and clock-chimes, and to clarify the paragraph about bell wieights.
Updated Apple Maps authorization token.
2023/02/17 - Revised 24 site data pages (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Slightly revised the article on Taylor's Doubled Trebles, including correcting the number of duplicated bells at Springfield, Massachusetts.
Revised the essay on philanthropy.
2023/01/21 - Revised 35 site data pages and added 3 (see list or map); replaced the site data page for the Deagan tubular chime chime at Brookings, SD, with an entry in the list of tubular sites that are no more; revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Revised the story of the builder.
Fixed several broken internal links.
2023/01/03 - Expanded the Goeppinger book research notes regarding New York City bellfounders C. Brinckerhoff (scroll down), Force (both Cornelius and Ephraim), and Sayre & Force; added a sentence to the end of the paragraph about Tips for use.
Expanded the description of the lost chime of jeweler E.P.Percival of Philadelphia.
Added a new list of carillon keyboard indexes to make it easier to compare the keyboard ranges of traditional carillons in different regions of the world.
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