The tables on this page summarize what is currently known about the contributions of various bellfounders to the carillons, chimes and other tower bell instruments which are recorded in the database that supports this Website. This includes not only extant instruments but also their lost predecessors and other defunct instruments.
Contents:
For each of three major geographic areas —
the Americas, Eurasia and the world — there are two tables of numbers, thus six tables in all.
Every table has a row of figures for each bellfounder
whose work has appeared in the various instruments in that area,
identified by an abbreviated name and the code letter that is used in the database.
After the last of the geographic areas is a list of all of those bellfounders,
in the same order as the rows in all of the tables, giving the full common name of each bellfoundry
together with some further information about it.
Every table has a number of columns corresponding to the various categories of contribution
(or phases in an instrument's life) that are distinguished in the database, as follows:
Cplt = Complete, i.e., an instrument which was never enlarged
Fndt = Foundation, i.e., an instrument which was initially complete but was later enlarged
Intm = Intermediate, i.e., an enlargement of an instrument which was later further enlarged
Extd = Extended, i.e., the enlargement of an instrument to its final size
Rcst = Recast, i.e., replacement of some bells without changing the size of an instrument
Tund = Tuned, i.e., re-tuning of some or all bells of an instrument
Mixd = Mixed, i.e., a phase which doesn't neatly fit into one of the above categories
Kybd = Keyboard, i.e., replacement of the playing console with one having different
manual and/or pedal keyboard ranges
Unkn = Unknown, i.e., it is uncertain which of the above categories is appropriate.
Every table has a column for each of these categories, followed by a column of totals for each bellfounder.
The first table for each area presents the number of instruments in that geographic area
for which each bellfounder has made one or more of the various categories or phases.
Those tables each have two additional columns, which subdivide the totals for each row
into counts of instruments or collections that are chime-sized (#<23) or carillon-sized (#>22).
No distinction is made here between traditional carillons and other instruments of similar size.
The second table for each area corresponds exactly to the first, except that it presents the number of bells
contained in the various phases that are counted therein,
and it does not have the two final columns that categorize instruments and collections by size.
Every table is completed with a row which presents the totals of each column in that table.
The number at the intersection of the totals row with the totals column represents either the total number
of instrument phases summarized or the total number of bells summarized, depending on the table.
Counts of instrument contributions by maker:
Abbrev. Code Cplt Fndt Intm Extd Rcst Tund Mixd Kybd Unkn TOTALS = #<23 + #>22
vanAerschodt A 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2
vanBergen V 35 9 4 8 0 1 0 0 0 57 15 42
Bigelow b 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 3
Bollée B 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2
Eijsbouts E 82 10 7 29 2 2 0 1 0 133 57 76
Glltt+Jhnstn G 23 24 8 0 3 0 0 0 0 58 24 34
Hooper/Blake h 11 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 15 0
Jones j 23 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 29 29 0
McShane N 136 24 0 5 5 0 0 1 0 171 171 0
Meeks,Watson e 5 1 6 16 8 2 0 1 0 39 13 26
Meneely/Troy m 131 33 4 11 2 0 0 0 0 181 180 1
Meneely/Wvlt M 121 52 10 13 4 0 0 0 0 200 193 7
Michiels I 4 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 8
Paccard P 77 13 15 31 3 1 0 0 0 140 46 94
Petit+Fritsn F 174 22 23 68 6 0 0 1 0 294 124 170
Rincker R 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 2
Rüetschi r 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0
Schilling C 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3
Taylor T 42 25 8 24 7 0 0 3 0 109 47 62
Vanduzen z 16 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 23 23 0
Warner w 4 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0
Whitechapel W 56 12 2 9 4 3 0 0 0 86 80 6
other * 32 4 2 13 2 4 4 30 3 94 61 33
unknown 18 2 5 13 3 0 1 29 7 79 63 16
Deagan d 424 9 2 9 1 0 0 1 0 446 393 53
USTubular u 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0
other/tub | 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38 37 1
(multiple) + 3 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 4 13 8 5
(n/a) - 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0
____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
TOTALS: 1474 258 99 257 52 13 10 67 14 2245 1599 646
Bells in instrument contributions by maker (- indicates no contribution to count):
Abbrev. Code Cplt Fndt Intm Extd Rcst Tund Mixd Kybd Unkn TOTALS
vanAerschodt A 25 35 - - - - - - - 60
vanBergen V 912 211 16 0 - 0 - - - 1139
Bigelow b - - 0 - 7 - - - - 7
Bollée B 74 - - - - - - - - 74
Eijsbouts E 2335 313 9 182 40 46 - 0 - 2925
Glltt+Jhnstn G 555 519 34 - 23 - - - - 1131
Hooper/Blake h 127 33 - 0 - - - - - 160
Jones j 223 45 - 0 - - - - - 268
McShane N 1531 254 - 0 29 - - 0 - 1814
Meeks,Watson e 187 19 11 27 66 9 - 0 - 319
Meneely/Troy m 1320 346 0 6 12 - - - - 1684
Meneely/Wvlt M 1361 611 31 6 11 - - - - 2020
Michiels I 281 99 - 0 - - - - - 380
Paccard P 2292 352 122 252 40 5 - - - 3063
Petit+Fritsn F 4634 636 105 245 15 - - 0 - 5635
Rincker R 81 - - - - - - - - 81
Rüetschi r 26 - - - - - - - - 26
Schilling C 54 24 - - - - - - - 78
Taylor T 869 665 10 99 60 - - 0 - 1703
Vanduzen z 184 30 0 0 10 - - - - 224
Warner w 60 8 - 15 - - - - - 83
Whitechapel W 521 122 6 57 71 0 - - - 777
other * 527 60 1 20 1 12 0 0 11 632
unknown 316 23 1 3 9 - 0 0 0 352
Deagan d 6676 123 7 10 16 - - 0 - 6832
USTubular u 86 - - - - - - - - 86
other/tub | 517 - - - - - - - - 517
(multiple) + 28 49 - 0 - - 4 - 0 81
(n/a) - - - - - - - 0 - - 0
____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
TOTALS: 25802 4577 353 922 410 72 4 0 11 32151
Counts of instrument contributions by maker:
Abbrev. Code Cplt Fndt Intm Extd Rcst Tund Mixd Kybd Unkn TOTALS = #<23 + #>22
vanAerschodt A 16 7 8 1 4 0 0 0 0 36 4 32
Allanconi a 13 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 16 14 2
vanBergen V 22 15 9 5 3 0 0 0 0 54 4 50
Bergholtz Z 28 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 30 3 27
Bollée B 8 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 6 9
Capanni i 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0
Causard c 11 4 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 21 6 15
Cavadini v 13 7 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 27 27 0
Colbachini l 11 6 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 24 24 0
CornllHavard o 3 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 8 2 6
De Poli L 20 2 0 4 7 0 0 0 0 33 32 1
Eijsbouts E 394 75 60 133 20 2 0 0 1 685 252 433
vandenGheyn D 5 21 7 2 0 0 0 0 0 35 8 27
Glltt+Jhnstn G 42 13 2 8 5 0 0 0 0 70 40 30
Hemony H 13 31 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 52 2 50
McShane N 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Michaux X 2 1 5 2 1 0 0 0 0 11 2 9
Michiels I 29 8 14 9 6 0 0 0 0 66 7 59
Olsen O 18 4 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 29 13 16
Paccard P 50 29 27 32 6 0 0 1 0 145 35 110
Perner p 20 1 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 27 15 12
Petit+Fritsn F 152 29 21 35 1 0 0 1 1 240 52 188
Rincker R 27 3 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 40 15 25
Rüetschi r 14 2 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 23 15 8
Schilling C 27 7 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 39 7 32
Sergeys S 12 3 3 8 4 0 0 0 0 30 7 23
Taylor T 77 35 24 28 19 1 0 3 0 187 125 62
Warner w 15 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 19 18 1
Wauthy Y 10 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 14 5 9
Whitechapel W 48 4 4 12 7 2 0 0 0 77 73 4
other * 215 76 27 39 14 1 16 4 10 402 216 186
unknown 188 24 14 79 0 0 1 10 74 390 206 184
Meissen % 15 3 0 3 3 0 0 0 1 25 7 18
BochumStahl $ 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 9
Deagan d 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
USTubular u 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
other/tub | 20 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 24 22 2
(multiple) + 14 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 27 27 0
____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
TOTALS: 1572 421 256 432 117 6 30 20 87 2941 1301 1640
Bells in instrument contributions by maker (- indicates no contribution to count):
Abbrev. Code Cplt Fndt Intm Extd Rcst Tund Mixd Kybd Unkn TOTALS
vanAerschodt A 490 316 24 0 0 - - - - 830
Allanconi a 175 - - 3 1 - - - - 179
vanBergen V 873 525 55 38 18 - - - - 1509
Bergholtz Z 802 35 - 0 - - - - - 837
Bollée B 225 131 1 0 - - - - - 357
Capanni i 77 - - - - - - - - 77
Causard c 299 118 2 0 0 - - - - 419
Cavadini v 117 65 - - 18 - - - - 200
Colbachini l 106 55 1 1 4 - - - - 167
CornllHavard o 53 - 3 23 - - - - - 79
De Poli L 198 22 - 6 10 - - - - 236
Eijsbouts E 9865 2484 255 549 259 40 - - 0 13452
vandenGheyn D 129 707 71 0 - - - - - 907
Glltt+Jhnstn G 744 350 16 60 72 - - - - 1242
Hemony H 507 905 91 - - - - - - 1503
McShane N 13 - - - - - - - - 13
Michaux X 58 13 14 0 0 - - - - 85
Michiels I 966 301 79 103 27 - - - - 1476
Olsen O 324 122 0 0 47 - - - - 493
Paccard P 1352 1095 184 124 125 - - 0 - 2880
Perner p 421 99 0 45 1 - - - - 566
Petit+Fritsn F 4759 1051 158 227 6 - - 0 0 6201
Rincker R 719 38 0 10 - - - - - 767
Rüetschi r 262 39 1 1 1 - - - - 304
Schilling C 920 228 0 0 1 - - 0 - 1149
Sergeys S 285 58 37 129 41 - - - - 550
Taylor T 1102 667 110 104 69 0 - 0 - 2052
Warner w 148 38 - - 1 - - - - 187
Wauthy Y 255 38 2 0 - - - - - 295
Whitechapel W 532 32 7 30 39 0 - - - 640
other * 4632 2280 89 13 50 0 0 0 0 7064
unknown 3856 600 7 23 - - 0 0 0 4486
Meissen % 416 140 - 0 0 - - - 0 556
BochumStahl $ 326 - - - - - - - - 326
Deagan d 32 - - - - - - - - 32
USTubular u 15 - - - - - - - - 15
other/tub | 252 16 - 0 - - - - - 268
(multiple) + 132 - - - - - 0 - - 132
____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
TOTALS: 36437 12568 1207 1489 790 40 0 0 0 52531
This pair of tables contains precisely the sums of the corresponding figures of the summaries for the eastern and western hemispheres, above. They have been computed by hand because the report generator program that produces these tables cannot contain all of the data in the world at one time.
Counts of instrument contributions by maker:
Abbrev. Code Cplt Fndt Intm Extd Rcst Tund Mixd Kybd Unkn TOTALS = #<23 + #>22
vanAerschodt A 17 8 8 1 4 0 0 0 0 38 4 34
Allanconi a 13 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 16 14 2
vanBergen V 57 24 13 13 3 1 0 0 0 111 19 92
Bergholtz Z 28 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 30 3 27
Bigelow b 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 3
Bollée B 11 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 18 7 11
Capanni i 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0
Causard c 11 4 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 21 6 15
Cavadini v 13 7 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 27 27 0
Colbachini l 11 6 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 24 24 0
CornllHavard o 3 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 8 2 6
De Poli L 20 2 0 4 7 0 0 0 0 33 32 1
Eijsbouts E 476 85 67 162 22 4 0 1 1 818 309 509
vandenGheyn D 5 21 7 2 0 0 0 0 0 35 8 27
Glltt+Jhnstn G 65 37 10 8 8 0 0 0 0 128 64 64
Hemony H 13 31 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 52 2 50
Hooper/Blake h 11 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 15 0
Jones j 23 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 29 29 0
McShane N 137 24 0 5 5 0 0 1 0 172 172 0
Meeks,Watson e 5 1 6 16 8 2 0 1 0 39 13 26
Meneely/Troy m 131 33 4 11 2 0 0 0 0 181 180 1
Meneely/Wvlt M 121 52 10 13 4 0 0 0 0 200 193 7
Michaux X 2 1 5 2 1 0 0 0 0 11 2 9
Michiels I 33 11 14 10 6 0 0 0 0 74 7 67
Olsen O 18 4 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 29 13 16
Paccard P 127 42 42 63 9 1 0 1 0 285 81 204
Perner p 20 1 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 27 15 12
Petit+Fritsn F 326 51 44 103 7 0 0 2 1 534 176 358
Rincker R 31 3 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 44 17 27
Rüetschi r 16 2 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 25 17 8
Schilling C 29 8 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 42 7 35
Sergeys S 12 3 3 8 4 0 0 0 0 30 7 23
Taylor T 119 60 32 52 26 1 0 6 0 296 172 124
Vanduzen z 16 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 23 23 0
Warner w 19 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 26 25 1
Wauthy Y 10 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 14 5 9
Whitechapel W 104 16 6 21 11 5 0 0 0 163 153 10
other * 247 80 29 52 16 5 20 34 13 496 277 219
unknown 206 26 19 92 3 0 2 39 81 469 269 200
Meissen % 15 3 0 3 3 0 0 0 1 25 7 18
BochumStahl $ 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 9
Deagan d 425 9 2 9 1 0 0 1 0 447 393 54
USTubular u 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0
other/tub | 58 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 62 59 3
(multiple) + 17 1 0 1 0 0 17 0 4 40 35 5
(n/a) - 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0
____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
TOTALS: 3016 679 355 689 169 19 40 87 101 5186 2900 2286
Bells in instrument contributions by maker (- indicates no contribution to count):
Abbrev. Code Cplt Fndt Intm Extd Rcst Tund Mixd Kybd Unkn TOTALS
vanAerschodt A 515 351 24 0 0 - - - - 890
Allanconi a 175 - - 3 1 - - - - 179
vanBergen V 1785 736 71 38 18 0 - - - 2648
Bergholtz Z 802 35 - 0 - - - - - 837
Bigelow b - - 0 - 7 - - - - 7
Bollée B 299 131 1 0 - - - - - 431
Capanni i 77 - - - - - - - - 77
Causard c 299 118 2 0 0 - - - - 419
Cavadini v 117 65 - - 18 - - - - 200
Colbachini l 106 55 1 1 4 - - - - 167
CornllHavard o 53 - 3 23 - - - - - 79
De Poli L 198 22 - 6 10 - - - - 236
Eijsbouts E 12200 2797 264 731 299 86 - 0 0 16377
vandenGheyn D 129 707 71 0 - - - - - 907
Glltt+Jhnstn G 1299 869 50 60 95 - - - - 2373
Hemony H 507 905 91 - - - - - - 1503
Hooper/Blake h 127 33 - 0 - - - - - 160
Jones j 223 45 - 0 - - - - - 268
McShane N 1544 254 - 0 29 - - 0 - 1827
Michaux X 58 13 14 0 0 - - - - 85
Meeks,Watson e 187 19 11 27 66 9 - 0 - 319
Meneely/Troy m 1320 346 0 6 12 - - - - 1684
Meneely/Wvlt M 1361 611 31 6 11 - - - - 2020
Michiels I 1247 400 79 103 27 - - - - 1856
Olsen O 324 122 0 0 47 - - - - 493
Paccard P 3644 1447 306 376 165 5 - 0 - 5943
Perner p 421 99 0 45 1 - - - - 566
Petit+Fritsn F 9393 1687 263 472 21 - - 0 0 11836
Rincker R 800 38 0 10 - - - - - 848
Rüetschi r 288 39 1 1 1 - - - - 330
Schilling C 974 252 0 0 1 - - 0 - 1227
Sergeys S 285 58 37 129 41 - - - - 550
Taylor T 1971 1332 120 203 129 0 - 0 - 3755
Vanduzen z 184 30 0 0 10 - - - - 224
Warner w 208 46 - 15 1 - - - - 270
Wauthy Y 255 38 2 0 - - - - - 295
Whitechapel W 1053 154 13 87 110 0 - - - 1417
other * 5159 2340 90 33 51 12 0 0 11 7696
unknown 4172 623 8 26 9 - 0 0 0 4838
Deagan d 6708 123 7 10 16 - - 0 - 6864
Meissen % 416 140 - 0 0 - - - 0 556
BochumStahl $ 326 - - - - - - - - 326
USTubular u 101 - - - - - - - - 101
other/tub | 769 16 - 0 - - - - - 785
(multiple) + 160 49 - 0 - - 4 - 0 223
(n/a) - - - - - - - 0 - - 0
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
TOTALS: 62239 17145 1560 2411 1200 112 4 0 11 84682
The following list, in the same order as the rows of the tables above, shows the name that is commonly used for each of the bellfounders represented in those tables. The abbreviations and database codes used in those tables are repeated in the first two columns here, though the column order is reversed. Following each column name is an indication of where each bellfoundry is or was located; at least the country name is shown. For those bellfoundries that are closed, some indication of their working lifetime or approximate closure year is also included. To find the actual work that was counted in the various tables above, see the Bellfoundry indexes page.
Code Abbrev. Common name
A vanAerschodt Van Aerschodt (Belgium, 19th-20th c.)
a Allanconi Allanconi (Italy)
V vanBergen van Bergen (Heiligerlee, NL & Greenwood, SC, USA; to 20th c.)
Z Bergholtz Bergholtz (Sweden; closed 2012)
b Bigelow Arthur Bigelow (USA; mid-20th c.)
B Bollée Bollée, E. & A. (France; 19th c.)
i Capanni Capanni (Castelnovo ne Monti, Italy)
c Causard Causard (Colmar & Strasbourg, France; 19th-20th c.)
v Cavadini Cavadini (Italy; 1800s to 1974)
l Colbachini Colbachini (Bassano & Padua, Italy; 1800s-2006)
o CornllHavard Cornille-Havard (France)
L De Poli De Poli (Revine, Treviso, Italy)
E Eijsbouts Eijsbouts (Asten, Netherlands)
D vandenGheyn van den Gheyn (Netherlands; 17th c.)
G Glltt+Jhnstn Gillett & Johnston (Croydon, England; 19th-20th c.)
H Hemony Hemony, Pieter &/or Francois (Netherlands; 17th c.)
h Hooper/Blake Hooper & Co; Blake & Co. (Boston, Mass., USA; 1830-90+)
j Jones Jones & Co. (Troy, New York, USA; 1860s-70s)
N McShane McShane (Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 19th-20th c.)
e Meeks,Watson Meeks, Watson & Co. (Georgetown, Ohio, USA)
m Meneely/Troy Meneely (Troy, New York, USA; 1870-1952)
M Meneely/Wvlt Meneely (West Troy = Watervliet, New York, USA; 1826-1951)
X Michaux Omer Michaux (Belgium, c.1900-1929)
I Michiels Michiels (Tournai, Belgium; 1886-1962)
O Olsen Olsen (Nauen, Norway)
P Paccard Paccard (Annecy, France)
p Perner Perner (Passau, Germany)
F Petit+Fritsn Petit & Fritsen (Aarle-Rixtel, Netherlands; 1815-2014)
R Rincker Rincker (Sinn, Germany)
r Rüetschi Rüetschi (Aarau, Switzerland)
C Schilling Schilling (mainly Apolda & Heidelberg, Germany; 1870s-1987)
S Sergeys Sergeys (Belgium; 1800s-1980)
s Sunderlin Sunderlin (Virginia, USA)
T Taylor John Taylor & Co. (Loughborough, England)
z Vanduzen Vanduzen (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; 1837-1950)
w Warner Warner (England; 1739-1924)
Y Wauthy Wauthy (Douai, France; 1901-1930s)
W Whitechapel Whitechapel (Mears & Stainbank etc.; London, England, 1507-
* other Other (conventional) - see Remarks in the various site data pages.
unknown Unknown - information not available to author.
% p Meissen Porzeleinfabrik Meissen (porcelain bells; Meissen, Germany)
$ s BochumStahl Bochumer Stahlverein (steel bells; Bochum, Germany)
d t Deagan J.C.Deagan & Co. (USA, 20th c.; tubular)
n t McShane McShane (Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 19th-20th c.; tubular)
u t USTubular U.S.Tubular Bell Co. (USA, 19th-20th c.)
| t other/tub Other (tubular) - see Remarks in the various site data pages.
+ (multiple) Multiple founders contributed to one phase of installation
- (n/a) Not applicable - code used with Keyboard entries etc.
1. In the tables for numbers of bells, the numbers in the Complete and Foundation columns are exact;
but for all of the other phases they are underestimates (often quite severely so).
That is because of the way that information about phases is recorded in the database.
Consequently, there are several places in these tables where the bell count is zero
even though it ought in truth to be non-zero.
2. In theory, the total number of Foundation phases ought to be identical to the total number
of Extended phases.
That is is not indicates that there are coding errors somewhere in the database.
A project to identify and correct these errors has been added to the "to do" list.
3. The criterion for inclusion in the database that underlies this Website
is a minimum of 8 bells in the initial installation.
Consequently, a very large part of the output of most bellfoundries is not reflected here.
4. Since a single bellfounder may have contributed multiple phases to a single instrument,
it is not possible from these tables to determine how many instruments contain (or formerly contained)
bells by a particular bellfounder.
5. The data on this page does not include independent great bells,
i.e., those which are not contained within a recorded instrument.
These bells are not recorded in the database; information about them has been compiled by hand.
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