*Location:
War Memorial to the Common Man Walnut Street at Ohio River Lawrenceburg, Indiana, USA LL: N 39.09175, W 84.84661 [W end]
*Contact:
Lawrenceburg City Offices 230 Walnut Street Lawrenceburg, IN 47025-1840 T: (812)532-3500 E: johnsonj /@/ col-in DOTnet
*Schedule:
Music at the hour, appropriate to one of the statues of military and civilian people, which rotate on a carousel.
*Remarks:
Bells divided between the two ends of the monument. Three more bells (not part of this instrument) are on a matching arch at the opposite end of Walnut Street, near U.S.50.
*Technical data:
Electric-automatic carillon of 30 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is C in the treble octave
Transposition is not applicable
Keyboard range: ---- / ----
The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
The whole instrument was installed in 2002
with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
Year of latest technical information source is 2002
*Links:
A Cincinnati news article gives some of the background of the Memorial.
An engineering page has a large photo at the top of the page and three more photos at the bottom, plus a brief description.
Near the bottom of a visitor's trip log are two interesting photos of the monument; click on them for larger versions.
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 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 IN.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 30-Jan-12 based on textual data last updated on 2012/01/20 and on technical data last updated on 2002/09/30
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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