Traveling Carillon

*Location:

   John P. Hall Estate
   Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, USA

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*Remarks:

   Frame was originally part of the
   MOBILE CARILLON,   USA
   (see under 'Former carillons').
   Bells new (cast 1980) for installation
   on Hall Estate, from which it was sold
   in 1991 to a private investor in PA.
   See   "(Traveling)",  USA - PA

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 35 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    C --  
   Transposition is up one octave
   There are two missing bass semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1982
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen    
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nBI   
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  2 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    2 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   4 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

More information about this defunct site may be available on the page of North American sites that are no more.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry.

   This page was built from the database on  5-Jul-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2004/09/03
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/07/17