*Location: Kearney State College Mem'l Carillon Tower Univ. of Nebraska at Kearney West 24th Street at 9th Avenue Kearney, Nebraska, USA LL: N 40.70061, W 99.09589
*Contact: University of Nebraska at Kearney 905 West 25th Street Kearney, NE 68849 T: 308-865-8000 F: 308-865-8102 - or - David Burnham, Maintenance Manager T: 308-865-1800 E: burnhamd@unk.edu *Schedule: Whittington quarter-chime tune at the hour, 10 times per day *Remarks: Given to honor the Peterson and Yanney families; installed by Harry van Bergen in March 1986. Bell controls & three-octave keyboard for programming are in library tunnels underground. *Technical data: Electric-automatic carillon of 24 bells Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is C in the treble octave Transposition is not applicable Keyboard range: (G )C C / NONE There are two missing bass semitones The whole instrument was installed in 1985 with bells made by Paccard Auxiliary mechanisms: I Tower details: Height of console: -4 meters above ground Height of lowest level of bells: 17 meters above ground Height of highest level of bells: 19 meters above ground Belfry openness: 95% Year of latest technical information source is 2022*Links:
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