HOUSTON - STM : USA - TX

*Location:

   Chapel Tower
   St.Mary's Seminary (RC)
   Memorial Drive near Highgrove Park
   Houston, Texas, USA
   LL: N 29.77801, W 95.47724

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Mary's Seminary
   9845 Memorial Drive
   Houston, TX  77024
   T: (713)686-4345
   E: seminary@stthom.edu

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Restored (or overhauled) in 2002

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 23 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1954
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 1973

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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 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 TX.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 21-Apr-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/04/20
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/05/09

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