Kaap Memorial Carillon

*Location:

   First Evangelical Lutheran Church
     (WELS)
   South Monroe Avenue at Lawe Street
   Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
   LL: N 44.50342, W 88.01628

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*Carillonist:

   Denise Schleis

*Contact:

   First Evangelical Lutheran Church
   743 South Monroe Avenue
   Green Bay, WI  54301
   T: 920-435-7970
   E: pschleis@new.rr.com  [pastor]

*Schedule:

   Before Sunday morning service (live);
   daily 1155 & 1755 (automatic)

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 47 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     G C 42/    C G   
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   There are two missing bass semitones
   There is a non-identical practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1957
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Auxiliary mechanisms: S4I12 
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  7 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:   12 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   ? meters above ground
     Belfry openness:   ?%
   Year of latest technical information source is 1984

The church Website has a link for a separate page on the carillon, and recent concerts.

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 traditional carillons by weight.
Ranking among all North American traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American concert class carillons by year of completion.

Other concert carillons with similar keyboard ranges.

Index to all traditional carillons in WI.

Index to all tower bell instruments in WI.

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2012/08/16
   and on technical data last updated on 1975/07/20