For changes which took place subsequent to 2005, see "What's New".
2005/12/20 - Revised 14 site data pages of all kinds and added one (list IX051220.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly.
Corrected the location of the great bell of Nottingham, England, and added Weblinks for it.
Added a Weblink to site data page for Brewster, NY.
2005/12/09 - Revised the page about Taylor's doubled trebles to include Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2005/12/06 - Revised the page about Taylor's doubled trebles to include Sydney, Australia.
2005/12/05 - Added a page about Taylor's doubled trebles.
2005/11/25 - Revised 6 site data pages of all kinds (list IX051108.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly.
2005/11/25 - Added 58 site data pages for chimes in the British Isles, plus appropriate indexes for them after the pattern of other regions.
Revised site data pages for traditional carillons at
Bournville and
Saint Helens, both in England.
Added a photo link to the paragraph about the
great bell of Downside Abbey, and revised several
other entries on the same page with details supplied by the Taylor foundry.
2005/11/02 - Revised 16 site data pages of all kinds (list IX051031.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly. Added Weblinks for the chimes in Cobourg and Port Hope, and for the ring in Toronto, all in Ontario, Canada.
2005/10/09 - Revised the list of North American great bells not in carillons to add 8 and correct weights for other entries for French Canadian swinging bells, based on information from Canadian campanologist Michael Rowan.
Revised site data page for Winston-Salem.
Revised the area index introductory pages for Africa and the Mideast, Central and South America and the British Isles. Added 20 site data pages for carillons in the British Isles, with appropriate index pages.
2005/10/03 - Revised site data pages for Dayton - D and Houston - STT.
2005/09/25 -
Revised 11 site data pages of all kinds,
one of which involved a promotion from chime to carillon
(list IX050923.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly.
Also standardized cross-linking between 30 other site data pages involved
in the multiple instrument index installed on 09/23:
2005/09/23 - Added a new index of North American institutions with multiple instruments (simultaneously or sequentially).
2005/09/21 - Revised 23 site data pages of all kinds and added 8 new ones (list IX050908.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly.
Corrected weight for the great bell of Notre Dame, Montreal.
Added or fixed Weblinks for Canton NY, Gettysburg PA and Holy Trinity Cathedral, Quebec City.
Corrected size of former chime in Charlestown, MA.
2005/09/17 - Corrected the weight shown for the great bell of Notre Dame, Montreal.
2005/09/15 - Replaced site date page for the former chime at Charlestown, MA, with an entry in the list of North American sites that no longer exist; revised affected indexes accordingly.
2005/09/09 - Replaced site date page for the former chime at The Woodlands, TX, with an entry in the list of North American sites that no longer exist; revised affected indexes accordingly.
2005/08/25 - Added an emergency note to the Map Use Hints reflecting the abandonment of map linking service by MapsOnUs, and consequent breakage of all of our locator map links for places in the USA.
2005/08/12 - Corrected the description of the great bell of Odiyan.
Added an entry for the former automatic carillon of Chobham, England.
2005/08/08 - Added commentary to the date-ordered list of great bells in the British Isles.
2005/08/07 - Revised 5 site data pages of all kinds (list IX050730.HTM removed to archive in 2007), including resolution of two previously unknown locations; revised affected indexes accordingly.
Provided MapQuest locator maps for Montreal site data pages, and revised some of the Map Use Hints pages to provide information about how we use MapQuest.
Added an entry for the great bell of Odiyan.
2005/07/31 - Added a pair of pages about Great Bells in the British Isles; revised affected indexes accordingly.
Provided a more accurate weight for Montreal sub-bourdon.
2005/07/17 - Added a brief historical note the Warner foundry index.
Added a page about sites that are no more in the British Isles; revised affected indexes accordingly.
2005/07/14 - Revised 8 site data pages of all kinds (list IX050708.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly.
2005/07/13 - Add Parktown cross-reference to three African index pages.
Revised the Taylor foundry index to reflect the new name of the firm (effective 1 July).
2005/07/12 - Added a PDF file for hardcopy of the new Africa and Mideast region, listing it on the hardcopy page.
Split last year's news into the separate history file referenced below, to save space here.
2005/07/11 -
Added city locator maps to almost all sites in
Africa and the Mideast;
also added Weblinks to several of them.
Added manually-constructed site data pages for three 6-bell rings in Africa,
and revised affected indexes accordingly; added Weblink for
The South African Guild of Church Bell Ringers.
2005/07/10 - Added city locator maps to almost all sites in Central and South America; substantive changes were also made to a few of them.
2005/07/09 - Added 30 new site data pages for Africa and the Mideast, with 17 new index pages and 5 new "indexes of indexes" pages; added new foundry index page for Petit & Edelbrock, and revised other foundry indexes appropriately.
2005/06/02 - Revised sort order in the index of North American rings by tenor pitch.
Add Higuey bass to list of Great Bells.
2005/06/01 - Revised 5 site data pages for traditional carillons (list IX050601.HTM removed to archive in 2007); indexes were unaffected.
2005/05/31 - Revised the page about sites that no longer exist, and added a new page about instruments whose capabilities have been degraded. The latest example of such degradation is Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; all indexes for traditional and non-traditional carillons have been revised to reflect that change.
Revised 24 site data pages (list IX050530.HTM removed to archive in 2007); indexes were unaffected.
Provided improved Canadian locator maps for Toronto - MC, ON and Saint Catharines, ON.
Provided workaround instructions for the faulty Website of Exhibition Place, Toronto, ON.
2005/05/29 - Revised the page about standard format to distinguish parcel and postal addresses.
Revised 51 site data pages (list IX050527.HTM removed to archive in 2007), based almost entirely on data from the Dec.2004 Roster of the Guild; indexes were unaffected.
2005/05/27 - Revised 4 site data pages (list IX050524.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly.
2005/05/21 - Revised Hendersonville, NC as requested by Richard Parsons.
2005/05/20 - Revised 35 site data pages (list IX050511.HTM removed to archive in 2007); indexes were unaffected. Canadian sites now have new locator maps.
Made another interim revision to the Map Use Hints main page, and expanded the related Maps Comparison page.
Supplied missing links between North American great bells not in carillons and the Hooper/Blake foundry index.
Added to the Great Bells introductory page a link to Chris Pickford's list, "Great Bells of Great Britain".
2005/04/25 - Revised 4 site data pages (list IX05042W.HTM removed to archive in 2007); indexes were unaffected.
2005/04/20 - Added a new index of chimes which are mini-carillons (Fr. petit carillon), i.e., essentially chromatic rather than essentially diatonic.
Revised site data page for chime at Chester, NS;
revised affected indexes accordingly.
Revised Weblinks for Saint John, NF
and St.John's United Church, Halifax, NS.
2005/04/18 - Revised 4 site data pages and added one (list IX050416.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly.
Fixed omission of Riverside MO (already indexed elsewhere) from the list of North American collections.
2005/04/09 - Revised 6 site data pages (list IX050409.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly.
Back-linked all North American site data pages for baton-keyboard chimes to the existing index of those chimes, and modified it to show year and maker.
2005/03/25 -
Revised 28 site data pages of all kinds
(list IX050321.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly
Added a major section to the McShane foundry index
based on a 1928 publication from that firm.
2005/03/14 - Added two site data pages and revised one (list IX05031W.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly, including news index for the Rüetschi bellfoundry.
Starting today, all pages generated from the database include a META statement defining the character set as ISO-8859-1. (Most index and text pages have had that statement for a long time.)
2005/03/07 - Revised 23 site data pages of all kinds (list IX050304.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly.
Revised Weblinks on site data pages for Dubuque (chime) and Ottawa (Peace Tower) (carillon).
2005/03/03 -
Added Weblinks to site data pages for
carillons at
Andover,
Centralia,
Gainesville,
Houston (HV),
Lake Wales,
Luray,
Missoula,
Morgan City,
Ottawa (Peace Tower),
Stanford;
non-traditional carillons at
Kearny,
Lakewood,
Rio Grande,
San Francisco,
Tyler,
White Salmon;
chimes at
Cambridge,
Chapel Hill,
Elizabeth,
Halifax,
Lunenburg,
Moose Jaw,
North Manchester,
Petrolia,
Princeton (Trinity),
Winnipeg (St.Luke);
and to the paragraph about the defunct chime at
Normal.
Removed the site data page for the tubular carillon at Río Piedras, PR, now listed on the TowerBells Website [since merged], and revised affected indexes accordingly.
2005/03/01 - Add illustrations for three McShane chimes which no longer exist (Baltimore, Muncie, Pittsburgh) and for one which was relocated (in Oxford, OH).
2005/02/19 - Revised 3 site data pages about chimes (list IX050219.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly.
Added British Isles area indexes to begin with the Falkirk chime page which was uploaded yesterday.
2005/02/18 - Revised 25 site data pages about chimes and added one (list IX050212.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly. Many of these changes are based on a newly discovered catalog of McShane chimes (1928); others are based on recent visits by Joe Connors and CSZ (independently).
2005/01/26 - Revised 14 site data pages of all kinds (list IX050125.HTM removed to archive in 2007).
2005/01/25 - Replaced the site data page for Folcroft, PA, with an entry in the list of North American sites that are no more; revised affected indexes accordingly.
Revised three site data pages for traditional carillons (list IX040229.HTM removed to archive in 2007). This task should have been done almost a year ago - the database was upgraded at the time, but the changes did not get migrated to Webpages. Mea culpa. /s/CSZ
2005/01/24 - Added two site data pages and revised four (list IX050121.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly.
2005/01/16 -
Added one site data page and revised one
(list IX050114.HTM removed to archive in 2007); revised affected indexes accordingly,
along with the list of North American
sites that are no more.
Expanded Hanks genealogy slightly.
Expanded the index of North American rings by year.
Prior years' news has been moved into the following separate files to save space here.
2004 -
See What was new in these pages in 2004?.
2003 -
See What was new in these pages in 2003?.
2002 -
See What was new in these pages in 2002?.
2001 -
See What was new in these pages in 2001?.
2000 -
See What was new in these pages in 2000?.
1999 -
See What was new in these pages in 1999?.
1998 -
See What was new in these pages in 1998?.
1997 -
See What was new in these pages in 1997?.
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