*Location:

   Christmas Tree Shops
   655 Iyannough Road (MA Rte 132)
   Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 41.66592, W 70.29199

Site locator map

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)
   Shop open daily 9am-9pm, Sun 10-7.

*Remarks:

   Glockenspiel with animated figures.
   Formerly listed as South Yarmouth,
   which is not the actual location.
   Not known whether sub-bourdon is usable
   from keyboard; cast in 1942, it
   was originally used for hour strike by
   the E.Howard tower clock visible in
   the tower base.  In 2013, Elderhorst
   Bells replaced clock drives, strikers
   and controls with Clock-O-Matic system;
   now plays only one short tune
   instead of two longer tunes.
   June 2022: tower clock not running,
   automatics at wrong times,
   apparently no animation.
   Apr.2025:  Christmas Tree Shops closed,
   and will be replaced by a Best Buy;
   tower dismantled, but new bell tower
   planned for elsewhere on the property.

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) of 24 (or 25) bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is unknown
   Keyboard range: (C )----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1989
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Auxiliary mechanisms: InHnE 
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2025

News story on the change of ownership; Best Buy plans to open in fall 2026, and there are plans for a new bell tower at a different location on the property, using the original bells from 1980s.

Gallery of 7 photos of the dismantling of the tower in Apr.2025

YouTube video (1:15, Summer 2021) with animation partially in operation

Google StreetView image of the left (south) side of the tower
Google StreetView image of the right (north) side of the tower

The chain store Website has no information specific to this store.  Formerly it provided an audio clip of bells playing, but that seems to have been removed.

A waymarking page has a gallery of photos of the tower, including a closeup of the belfry which shows not only the large hour bell but also the tiny bells of the automatic carillon.  But the visitor who waymarked this only noticed the big clock bell.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Index to all glockenspiels in the world.

Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by 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 MA.

   This page was built from the database on  4-Oct-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/09/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2025/09/30