AUSTIN - GS : USA - TX

*Location:

   Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd
   Windsor Road and Exhibition Boulevard
   Austin, Texas, USA
   LL: N 30.29679, W 97.76900
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Church of the Good Shepherd
   3201 Windsor Road
   Austin, TX  78703
   T: 512-476-3523

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells cast 2014, installed 2016

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 2016
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020
*Links:

Photo page from the company that expanded this church, including the addition of the bell tower.

The church Website reports that this is the founding campus of a multi-location congregation, and has been located here in Austin's historic Tarrytown neighborhood since 1951.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by 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 TX.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  9-Aug-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2018/09/10
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/07/31
*Photos:

(none available)

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