OXFORD : USA - MS

*Location:

   Peddle Bell Tower
   Paris-Yates Chapel
   The University of Mississippi
   Chapel Lane at Magnolia Drive
   Oxford, Mississippi, USA
   LL: N 34.36582, W 89.53965

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   Dr. Linda G. Spargo
   c/o Paris-Yates Chapel
   Chancellor's Office
   Lyceum 123
   University, MS  38677
   T: (662)915-6915  or  -7229
   E: chapel@olemiss.edu

*Schedule:

   Clock-chime on the hour and half hour;
   automatic music at 5pm daily.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 36 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2001
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 2004

*Links:

The University Website might show a photo that includes the chapel and tower.  There is a campus map which can locate the chapel precisely (but the maps are oriented toward the west, not the north).  The chapel main page has a night photo of the building and tower; there is an associated history page with a tower photo, and a tower page about the bells.

The Verdin Company's article about their work here

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 MS.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/04/20
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/12/16

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