*Location:

   Deal Carillon Tower
   McCartney Library
   Geneva College
   3rd Avenue (College Avenue),
     north of 32nd Street
   Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 40.77342, W 80.32227

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*Player:

   (unknown)

   ded.2Je1931 by Mr.Franklin S. Walter,
     McShane Bell Foundry, installer

*Contact:

   McCartney Library
   Geneva College
   3200 College Avenue
   Beaver Falls, PA  15010
   T: 724-846-5100
   E: web@geneva.edu

*Schedule:

   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters

*Remarks:

   Original order for 10 bells expanded to
   14 before delivery; added semitones
   are sharp 4th & flat 7th; hour strike
   on bass bell.  McShane also furnished
   a wood wheel for an old bell
   (probably on Old Main building).
   Refurbished (and possibly tuned?)
   in 1997-8.
   Jun.2024: Hour strike and one note of
   quarter strike inoperable.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  2 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1929
     with bells made by McShane      
   Auxiliary mechanisms: Q4HE  
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003

The college Website mentions the "Deal Carillon" in various PDFs, but a former descriptive page has vanished.  A page of Sights and Sounds has an unidentified photo of a building with belfry, but it isn't the Library.  The campus map has a page about the Library (with a photo of the bell tower) but it doesn't mention the bells.  A different page about the Library has a paragraph about the bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the McShane bellfoundry.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in PA.

   This page was built from the database on 30-Jul-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/07/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/07/27