DEFUNCT

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  DEFUNCT

CHAMPAIGN : USA - IL

*Location:

      Trinity Tower
   University Lutheran Church and
     Student Center (LCMS)
   East Chalmers & South 6th Streets
   Champaign, Illinois, USA
   LL: N 40.1072, W 88.2298

*Past carillonists:

   1953-1967 (no records)
   1968-2001 Susanne G. Wood   (A)
   2001-08  (disused)

*Remarks:

   2008: Bells sold by pastor to Chime 
   Master, who dispersed some of them.
   Former baton keyboard and mechanical
   action were scrapped.

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    C C   
   Transposition is up 17 semitone(s), i.e., from C to F 
   There are two missing bass semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1953
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen    
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nB    
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  9 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:   12 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:  15 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:    %
   Year of latest technical information source is 1970
*Links:

More information about this defunct site may be available on the page of North American sites that are no more.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  5-Jul-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2012/10/21
   and on technical data last updated on 2010/05/31
*Photos:

(none available)

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