LAKE ORION : USA - MI

*Location:

   Olde World Canterbury Village
   Joslyn Court
   Lake Orion, Michigan, USA
   LL: N 42.74633, W 83.28306

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*Contact:

   Olde World Canterbury Village
   2369 Joslyn Court
   Lake Orion, MI  48360
   T: (248)391-5700

*Schedule:

   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters;
   automatic music.

*Remarks:

   Property was once the Howard Scripps
   estate; OWCV and Aldridge's Always
   Christmas opened in 1993.
   July 2010: Some bells and glockenspiel
   inoperative.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 24 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in unknown year
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   Year of latest technical information source is 2004

*Links:

On the shopping center's Website, there is a map of the village, which shows the "clock tower" at center front and has a small photo of that building.  The bells are hung around the edge of the semicircular second-story stage, below the projecting gable roof which shelters the animation.

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 MI.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/08/05
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/08/09

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