Indexes to tower bell sites in North America

Tower bell instruments or collections of 8 or more bells can be found in all three countries of North America.  This Website has a site data page for each such instrument or collection which is known.  To facilitate finding pages of interest to visitors, as well as to show related information about groups of sites, those site data pages are indexed in several different ways, as follows:

• Tower bell sites in this area can be categorized according to the type of instrument.  Each of the pages linked here presents a variety of indexes for one particular type of instrument; some also offer specialized locator maps:
  • Traditional carillons (baton keyboard, mechanical transmission)
  • Non-traditional carillons and carillon-sized sets of tower bells
  • Chimes and chime-sized sets of tower bells
  • - with baton keyboard (a subset of the total list)
  • - Chimolas (the small subset made with hemispheric bells)
  • - Rings (the change-ringing subset of chimes)
  • - Zvons (the subset of chimes hung and rung Eastern Orthodox or Maltese style)
  • Tubular bells (worldwide indexes)

• The following pages are not segregated by type of instrument, but do not include tubular bells:
  • Combined index to all types of tower bell instruments by state/province
  • Combined index to all types of tower bell instruments by bellfoundry
    If you are looking for a specific site by its institutional name (e.g., a church or school) or by the instrument's proper name, pick either of the above indexes and then use the "find in page" feature of your Web browser to locate a distinctive word (or partial word) in that name.

  • Institutions with multiple instruments
  • Sites that are degraded (carillons and chimes)
  • Sites that are no more (carillons and chimes: exhibited, relocated, destroyed, sold, stolen, etc.)

• One index by state/province combines both conventional and tubular tower bell instruments.

• Also available:
  • Regional locator map for traditional carillons
  • Regional locator map for non-traditional carillons
  • Regional locator map set for all types of tower bell instruments, including great bells

  • Collections of tower bells

  • List of great bells in carillons in this region
  • List of other great bells in this region
  • Regional locator map for great bells (whether in carillons or not)

  • Summaries

• A PDF listing all sites in this region is available from the hardcopy page.

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