*Location:

   Memorial Chapel
   The Culver Academies
   (formerly Culver Military Academy)
   Indiana Highway 10
   Culver, Indiana, USA
   LL: N 41.22510, W 86.40319

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*Carillonist:

   (position vacant)

   ded.Oct.1951 Kamiel Lefévere  (d.)
   1951-54 Alan Ross  (1921-2001)(C)
   1954-57 James Kohn
   1957-67 Milford Myhre   (C)
   1967-80 Robert Kamrow  (d.2012)
   1980-2019 John Gouwens   (C)

*Contact:

   Chaplain's Office
   The Culver Academies
   Culver, IN  46511
   T: 574-842-3779
   E: kristen.counts@culver.org

*Schedule:

   Autoplay of school songs 5pm daily.

*Remarks:

   The last North American installation by
   G&J, and their last complete carillon.
   Renovated by Taylor, 1982.
   Originally Cambridge (Westminster)
   quarters; now has unique quarters by
   John Gouwens, 0745-2030.  Independent
   transmission for electro-pneumatic
   tune player, heard daily at 5pm until
   2019, when computer-controlled
   electric action was installed on the
   same bells by Smith Bell & Clock Svc.
   Bourdon swings.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 51 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is B  in the bass octave
   Keyboard range:     C D#  /    C C 24
   Transposition is down 1 semitone(s), i.e., from C to B 
   There is one missing bass semitone
   There is an identical practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1951
     with bells made by Gillett & Johnston
   Auxiliary mechanisms: S1Q*14
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1996

The new Website of the Academies may be mostly invisible to some Web browsers. You can instead go directly to pages about the carillon recital series, the carillon, and recordings of both.

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

Ranking among all North American traditional carillons by weight.
Ranking among all North American traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American concert class carillons by year of completion.

Other concert carillons with similar keyboard ranges.

Index to all traditional carillons in IN.

Index to all tower bell instruments in IN.

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/11/11
   and on technical data last updated on 1991/07/06