*Location:

   Taft Memorial
   Louisiana, Constitution, and New Jersey
     Avenues, 1st & C Streets, NW
   Washington, D.C., USA
   LL: N 38.89274, W 77.01091

Site locator map

*Player:

   Jim Saenger
   E: chamade /@/ early DOTcom

*Contact:

   The Architect of the Capitol
   T: (202)228-1793
   E: Webform @ www.aoc.gov

*Schedule:

   Quarters and hours, 0800-2000 daily;
   for opening each session of Congress;
   1400 July 4th; for special events.

*Remarks:

   Sub-bourdon swings.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 27 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range: (G )C D   /    NONE  
   There is one missing bass semitone
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1959
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: QES1  
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  0 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:   25 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:  28 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  55%
   Year of latest technical information source is 1990

The Taft Memorial, in text and photos by the office of the Architect of the Capitol.
Alternate URL

An article about the man memorialized, with information about the Memorial.

Photo of tower, with U.S.Capitol in the background

Waymarking page, with 7 photos

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard 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.

The sub-bourdon of this carillon is among all great bells in North America.

Index to all tower bell instruments in DC.

   This page was built from the database on 14-Dec-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/12/12
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/11/11