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Tower Bell Data Bases around the world.
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ALLCHIMES North American Towers of 8-72 Bells.

..Major Cast Bell Tower Chime, Carillon and Foundry lists available in North America, presented in cradle to grave fashion, showing first location, name, maker, #bells, year and AllChimes Ref#.

..Lists with comments - also show addresses, music directors, phones, e-mails, all sorts of comments, and clickable websites. Comments are honest, complimentary or not.

...Lists are 99% complete, except for possible Meneely West Troy (most records are lost), Petit & Fritsen (records unavailable), and non-working Deagans.

Abbreviations - commonly found in ALLCHIMES lists.

All tower instruments in our data base by Country, State and City - no comments
All tower instruments in our data base by Country, State and City - + comments

All tower instruments in our data base  - by Foundry, Country, State and City - no comments,
preceded by brief history of these and other foundries

All Canada, Mexico , Expositions and bells of note - - by Province/State and City + comments

British Isles, some others outside of North America    - by Country and City + comments

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Troy, NY, home of 2/3 of the bellfounding in the United States.
Julius and Oscar Hanks, Andrew Meneely (West Troy), Eber Jones, Clinton Meneely/Kimberly.

the Kehn Book ** Meneely of Troy - all bell sales - transcribed by Jess Brodnax 
Use these hints to make your search of this EXCEL Data Base faster for you.
Hit [open], then wait patiently for spread sheet to open, hit [enable macros],
then hit CTRL-F (find), fill in [search for](it is not case sensitive), hit [find].
The EXCEL line number will show on the left, and you might have to go left and right to get all the info.

site - Troy Bell casters info Meneely, Jones, Meneely  

site ** by Meneely family descendent

Article - Meneely Bells West Troy

 

Tower Bell Data Bases around the world of any number of bells.

 All Deagans from another site. - by State and City + comments

 All Known Naylor Vickers Bells from George Dawson

Bell Facts - a fabulous list of bell facts.

http://www.martinmdb.com/bells.html

More links - an unstructured potpourri of sites that come across our desk..

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                             Working Bell Foundries

site - Eisbouts Bell Foundry, Holland 

site - Meeks, Watson Co., Georgetown, Ohio

site - Paccard Bell Foundry, France

site - Petit & Fritsen Bell Foundry, Holland

site - Taylor Bell Foundry, England

site - Whitechapel Bell Foundry, England

                        Organizations    ** are quite pictorial and educational

site - Guild of Carilloneurs - Chime & Carillon listings

site - World Carillon Federation

site - North American Guild of Change Ringers

site ** Change ringing (mostly England)

site - American Guild of Handbell Ringers

site - Tower Clocks -  National Assn. of Watch and Clock Collectors

site - Tower Clocks, Drums  -  Mostly England - Subscription site

site - American Bell Association - Collectors of smaller bells

site ** Understanding various national types of bells

site ** A great local history of all bells in the Town of Sand Lake

site ** Major organs in the five boroughs of NY City and related info.

                       Some Interesting Chime Sites

Wt-11 1909 - St. James, Stratford, Ont, Canada

WT-11 1910 - Hopedale Unitarian Church, Hopedale, MA

WH-15 1924 - St. George's Anglican, Oshawa, Ont, Canada

GJ-08 1926 - St. John the Baptist Norway, Toronto, Ont, Canada

TY-11 1911 - St. John's Episcopal, Troy, NY

TY-09 1879+1 - Kenyon College Pealers, Gambier, OH

GJ-10 1924+7- Kerrytown Chime, Ann Arbor, MI

JO-09 1876+3 - St. Mark's Chime, Jim Thorpe, PA

WT-10 1902 - St.John's, Lunenburg, NS, Canada, Restoration - Jan 2003

same - St.John's, Lunenburg, NS, Canada, Chime Rebuild - Nov 2002

same - St.John's, Lunenburg, NS, Canada, Chime Rebuild - Nov. 2002

same - St.John's, Lunenburg, NS, Canada, AllChimes Visit - June 2001

MS-15 1920 - The Senior Memorial Chime, Urbana-Champaign, IL

WT-09 1868+13 - The Cornell Chimes, Ithaca, NY

GJ-11 1935 - St. Paul's Cathedral, London, Ont. Canada

TY-10 1876 - James Carter Memorial Chime, Chicago, IL

Installation and Repairs - in addition to Foundries above - ask Allchimes

Bells bought and sold - ask Allchimes.

 Automatic Tower Speaker Systems  - that sound like bells - a reality where there is an extremely low budget - ask Allchimes.

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Sites to look at, might be of interest - of bell topics and stories.

www.carillon-Berlin.de  Jeffrey Bossin

www.nordic-carillon.dk travelling carillon Scandinavian Carillon School

MikeChester home page Chimes Europe

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