Expanded from ten to fifty-four bells by John Taylor Bell Founders of Loughborough, England in 1966, the Yale Memorial Carillon is the eighth largest by total weight in North America.
The keyboard ranges from G in the bass octave to C in the treble octave. The carillon is transposed down one semitone, and the 6.7-ton bourdon sounds an F-sharp.
View the data page about this carillon on the GCNA website. From there you can find other Connecticut chimes and carillons.
Image: Newly completed bourdon of the Yale University chime at John Taylor Bell Founders, c1922.
In June 2005, John Taylor Bell Founders completed a refurbishment of the carillon.
Harkness Tower underwent an interior renovation last summer, and Meeks, Watson & Co. has recently installed a new practice keyboard, bringing the number of practice carillons up to two.
Image: New practice carillon under construction at the workshop of Meeks, Watson & Co. in June 2003.
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