*Location:

   Hulley Tower
   John B Stetson University
   North Woodland Blvd (US Highway 17),
     north of Minnesota Avenue
   De Land, Florida, USA
   LL: N 29.03615, W 81.30322

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Alumni Relations Office
   Stetson University
   421 North Woodland Boulevard
   De Land, FL  32720-7217
   T: 386-822-7483
   E: alumni@stetson.edu
   - or -
   T: 386-822-7100  [main switchboard]
   - or -
   Boyd Jones, University Organist
     and Professor of Organ
   School of Music
   T: 386-822-8955
   E: bjones@stetson.edu

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells by Grassmayr, to be installed
   in late 2025, as tower is rebuilt.
   Replaces the chime (-1) that was in
   the previous version of this tower.

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument or collection of 52 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2025
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above            
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2025

A University news article (25 Feb 2025) reports on the rebuilding of Hulley Tower.  An architectural rendering appears to show three large bells (presumably from the former chime) on display in a rack near the tower.  It offers a wonderful video about how three students who died in an avalanche in Austria in 1979 are being memorialized, and has many historic and current photos.
Tragedy and Triumph, a January 8, 2024 news article from the university Website, is also included in the Fall/Winter 2023 issue of Stetson University Magazine.

Part of a fundraising effort, this page has descriptions and photos of the rebuilt tower.

Flickr album of photos of Stetson U people visiting the Grassmayr foundry; includes photos of several of the bells for Stetson and their custom inscriptions.

Short video (0:40) of making Stetson bells at Grassmary foundry
Same video on Facebook

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Grassmayr bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in FL, including the previous chime here (now partially dispersed).

   This page was built from the database on  2-Mar-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/02/25
   and on technical data last updated on 2025/02/25