*Location:

   Bell Tower
   Oregon State University
   Library quad (east of SW Waldo Place)
   Corvallis, Oregon, USA
   LL: N 44.56566, W 123.27527

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Oregon State University
   1500 SW Jefferson Avenue
   Corvallis, OR  97331
   T: 541-737-1000
   - or -
   Shelly Signs, Events Director
   T: 541-737-0724
   E: shellysigns@oregonstate.edu
      events@oregonstate.edu

*Schedule:

   Autoplay at 0800, 1200, 1800, except
   Sundays at 1000; program changes each
   term.  May still strike hour and half
   hour as originally operated.

*Remarks:

   Five bells installed as clock chime
   when tower was constructed in 2001.
   Oddly, the tower appears not to have
   been dedicated until 2009.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 23 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  7 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The instrument was enlarged in 2018
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   Prior history:
     In 2014, the instrument was begun with 14 bells
       by an unknown maker (except for 5)
       Keyboard range was:     ----  /    NONE  
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

News article (Jun'23) about the bell tower of Oregon State University, with photos; the history and description are inconsistent, and don't mention the necessary enlargement of the tower, which might have been done in two phases.  Difficult to play or program anything other than single-note melodies, because the larger bells respond more slowly than the smaller ones.

News article from 2009 (mis-filed as 2001) on dedication of the tower, with original 5 bells

A photo from the university archives, dated 2001, shows the tower with its original five bells.  Although the name "The Papé Campanile" is used here, it does not seem to be in current use elsewhere.

An archived version of the dedication article is dated 10-1-01, though captured in Nov.2010.

A search of the library archives shows that the cover photo of Vol.16 No.2 (Fall 2001) of The Messenger magazine depicted the then-new bell tower; but the publication itself seems to be unavailable.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by pitch (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 OR.

   This page was built from the database on  4-Nov-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/07/17
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/07/17