The DellaPenna Family Carillon

*Location:

   travels with Charlie St.Cyr-Paul
   musical group; based in USA
   LL: N 40.2437, W 75.6616

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*Former location (1951-2009, old bells):

   St.Barnabas Roman Catholic Church
   63rd Street and Buist Avenue
   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 39.92239, W 75.22663

   Charlie St.Cyr-Paul
   Web: bells2go.com

*Contact:

   Frank & Anne DellaPenna
   PO Box 281
   St.Peters, PA  19470-0281
   T: 800-601-6609  or  610-469-0261
   E: fdp51@aol.com

*Schedule:

   Special events

*Remarks:

   Frame, keyboard & action by Ewald
   Stellrecht, ESE Machines, Coatesville,
   PA.  Inaugurated Dec.2010 at Longwood
   Gardens.  Formerly travelled with
   "Cast in Bronze" musical group.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 35 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up one octave
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    C G   
   There are two missing bass semitones
   There is no practice console
   The instrument was enlarged in 2010
     with bells made by Eijsbouts    
   Prior history:
     In 1951, the instrument was begun with 25 bells
       by Petit & Fritsen
       Pitch of heaviest bell was F  in the treble octave
       Transposition was up two octaves
       Keyboard range was:     F G   /    NONE  
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   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 2011

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Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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   This page was built from the database on  9-Feb-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/02/06
   and on technical data last updated on 2011/01/09