2024/11/16 - Split 2023 news into the separate history file referenced below, to save space here.
Added another unrelated essay.
2024/11/13 - Fixed indexing and regional mapping of the only traditional carillon in Finland.
Converted all remaining index pages and some others to UTF-8.
Fixed several broken internal links (not enumerated).
2024/11/09 -
Regenerated 637 site data pages for traditional carillons
and baton-keyboard chimes around the world (not enumerated or mapped)
to show transposition in terms of the resulting key relative to C.
(It was already shown as the number of semitones up or down.);
updated locator maps to latest version as needed;
revised display of North American telephone area codes
without changing revision dates in the database.
Included in that number were 20 site data pages
(see list)
which had not been previously published and announced
after their database entries were updated.
Mea culpa!
Replaced three old handmade pages for the independent 6-bell rings of North America
with similar pages created from the database
(see list) after verifying that the present database
system can in fact hold instruments made of fewer than 8 bells.
Provided missing links to an existing page about 5- and 6-bell
rings in Australia and New Zealand;
through an oversight at its original creation in 2013,
it has until now been accessible only from regional locator maps.
Improved the page about the standard format of site data pages.
Revised the page about Website maintenance to reflect progress toward a future version of TowerBells.
2024/09/21 - Revised 67 site data pages and added 3 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Removed the site data page for the University of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg, Kentucky, after discovering that its tower contains nothing but bell shells and loudspeakers.
Replaced links to the lost ARPAC Website (in France) with links to the equivalent archived pages on the Wayback Machine (not itemized).
2024/09/01 - Revised 38 site data pages and added 24 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Added a video of the great bells of Markham, Ontario
2024/08/29 - Re-authorized Apple Maps, after the previous certificate expired unexpectedly.
2024/08/19 - Updated instrument counts in a variety of regional locator maps (not enumerated).
Revised the page about standard format to explain "Tower details" more fully.
2024/08/16 - Updated the figures in the worldwide summary of instruments by country and type.
Revised the geographic list of indexes to traditional carillons to show the association of the member societies of the World Carillon Federation with each country or region.
Added a new index to traditional carillons in Belgium, this one sorted by region (corresponding to the purview of the two carillon societies in Belgium).
2024/08/12 - Revised 40 site data pages and added 23 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Added an entry to the page of North American sites that are no more based on newspaper evidence of a chime made by Andrew Fulton of Pittsburgh PA.
Revised the page of European sites that are no more to restore access to the similar page for Germany, which has been revised with the solution of the mysterious location of "Kruesinsee" (actually Krössinsee).
Added to the Olsen Foundry index page an obituary for Ole Christian Olsen Nauen (1939–2024).
Revised the Search page to explain a quirk in Google's indexing methodology, and to provide a workaround that might be helpful in some instances.
Updated the autobiographical page for the author/editor of this Website.
Added another unrelated essay.
2024/05/22 - Revised 51 site data pages and added 3 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Added a province code list to the index by province for Italy.
Added a former great bell in Belgium plus two great bells in Spain to the list and table for Europe.
Revised the explanation of special characters slightly.
Removed partition tags from site locator maps for sites in Germany.
Added recently discovered external links to a variety of site data pages (not itemized).
2024/03/24 - Revised 148 site data pages and added 29 (see list or map); revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly. This included mapping mobile instruments to their home cities, as well as finding the actual locations of three instruments which previously were identified only by city; their files were renamed.
Added the definition of "bell metal" to the Glossary.
Added the carillon of Jasna Góra Monastery (Częstochowa, Poland) to the list of degraded instruments in Europe, and added its four great bells to lists and regional locator maps.
Changed the status of the Deagan tubular chime in El Paso TX from unknown to gone; revised affected indexes and regional maps accordingly.
Revised some of the text of the page about Instrument Type Abbreviations in Indexes to clarify usages of key words.
Revised the Observations in the Summary of carillon keyboard ranges worldwide.
Revised the maintenance page slightly, with the important addition of a Postscript about the future of the database.
2024/03/23 - Updated Apple Maps authorization token.
2024/01/11 - Revised the Glossary statement about hybrid carillons; supplied a new index to hybrid carillons worldwide, and standardized dual indexing of those instruments as both traditional and non-traditional (with "hybrid" tags).
Revised the index of travelling carillons into a main page plus three indexes, each listing all known mobile instruments in a different order; added a worldwide map of such instruments.
Expanded the page about special characters to explain more fully the encoding methods that we use. That also tells what you should do when you observe erroneous characters anywhere.
Added a new project to the essay on philanthropy.
2024/01/01 - Added a new page about Website security, prominently linked from the home page; removed two previous "new" items there.
Revised the list of foundries to make it more useful.
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