PARIS : USA - TX

*Location:

   DeShong Chapel
   Paris Junior College
   24th Street SE at East Polk Street
   Paris, Texas, USA
   LL: N 33.65209, W 95.53131
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Paris Junior College
   2400 Clarksville Street
   Paris, TX  75460-6258
   T: (903)785-7861
   E: mruff@parisjc.edu

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 15 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 1960
     with bells made by vanBergen   
   Year of latest technical information source is 2012

*Links:

On the college Website, the "carillon" appears on the campus map, but is mentioned nowhere else.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the vanBergen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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 TX.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 20-Mar-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2012/03/17
   and on technical data last updated on 2012/03/18


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