DALTON : USA - GA

*Location:

   Dalton State College
   College Drive
   Dalton, Georgia, USA
   LL: N 34.77505, W 85.00336
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*Contact:

   Dalton State College
   650 College Drive
   Dalton, GA  30720
   T: (706)272-4436  F: (706)272-2530
   E: admissions@daltonstate.edu

*Schedule:

   Westminster quarters tune at the hour.

*Remarks:

   Tower construction began June 2008;
   dedication 1 May 2009.
   Reports of 24 bells are in error.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2008
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2009

*Links:

The college Website has news articles about the planned bell tower; at least one has a drawing of the tower.  (Use the search facility there.)

An outside news article

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 pitch (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 GA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/10/10
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/08/02


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