Summaries of carillons and other tower-bell sites
in North America
There are many ways to summarize the available information about
carillons, chimes, and other tower-bell sites.
We present here some simple tables or graphs which show for North America
- a table of state or province vs. size,
for traditional carillons.
This also shows the total number of traditional carillons for each state/province,
totals for the region and for each size group, and some other miscellaneous
facts which can be deduced from the summary table.
- a table of practice console availability
for traditional carillons.
- a table of state or province vs. size,
for non-traditional carillons.
This also shows the total number of non-traditional carillons for each state/province,
totals for the region and for each size group, and some other miscellaneous
facts which can be deduced from the summary table.
- a table of state or province vs. size,
for tubular tower chimes.
This also shows the total number of tubular tower chimes for each state/province,
totals for the region and for each size group, and some other miscellaneous
facts which can be deduced from the summary table.
- a table of state or province vs. type of instrument
(traditional carillons, non-traditional carillons and chimes).
This also shows the total number of instruments for each state/province,
totals for the region and for each type, and some other miscellaneous
facts which can be deduced from the summary table.
- the distribution by bourdon pitch,
i.e., numbers of instruments which start from a certain note
(regardless of size), for traditional carillons only.
- the distribution of instruments by bourdon pitch vs. number of bells
and by treble pitch vs. number of bells,
for traditional carillons,
for non-traditional carillons,
for chimes and
for rings.
- tables of bellfounders' work
in traditional carillons and
in non-traditional carillons and
in chimes and
in rings.
- a summary by decade and founder -
the distribution of chime installations
according to when they were made and by whom.
A summary by size and keyboard configuration
for traditional carillons of the world includes a column for North America.
We welcome suggestions about other kinds of summary or statistical
information which you would like to see presented here.
Please use the email link on the bottom line of this page to submit them.
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