Indexes to tower bell sites
in Central and South America

Tower bell instruments or collections of 8 or more bells can be found in many countries of the region commonly called Central America (the countries to the south of Mexico), the islands of the Caribbean Sea, and the continent of South America.  This Website has a site data page for each such instrument or collection which is known.  To facilitate finding pages of interest to visitors, as well as to show related information about groups of sites, those site data pages are indexed in several different ways, as follows:

• Tower bell sites in this area can be categorized according to the type of instrument.  Each of the pages linked here presents a variety of indexes for one particular type of instrument:
  • Traditional carillons

  • Non-traditional carillons and carillon-sized sets of tower bells

  • Chimes and chime-sized sets of tower bells

• The following pages are not segregated by type of instrument:
  • Combined index by country

  • Combined index by bellfoundry

    If you are looking for a specific site by its institutional name (e.g., a church or school) or by the instrument's proper name, pick either of the above indexes and then use the "find in page" feature of your Web browser to locate a distinctive word (or partial word) in that name.

  • Sites that are no more (exhibited, relocated, destroyed, sold, stolen, etc.)

• Also available:
  • List of great bells in this region

  • Regional locator map for traditional carillons

  • Regional locator map for all types of instruments, including great bells

  • Regional locator map for great bells alone

• Summaries for this region:
  • the geographical distribution of traditional carillons by country vs. size.

  • the distribution of instruments by bourdon pitch vs. number of bells and by treble pitch vs. number of bells,
    for traditional carillons and for non-traditional carillons and for chimes.

  • tables of bellfounders' work in traditional carillons and in non-traditional carillons and in chimes.

• A PDF listing all sites in this region is available from the hardcopy page.

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