A NEW CARILLON.
CROYDON TO WISCONSIN. LONDON, December 20. Last Friday afternoon, at the Croydon bell foundry of Messrs. Gillett and Johnston, a recital was given on a newly completed carillon for the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, U.S.A. The bells, twenty-three in number, comprise two chromatic octaves. A tower, isolated from the main university buildings, has been especially built for the reception of the bells, in a position which, surrounded as it is by trees beside the waters of Lake Mendota., is considered the most perfect for the performance of bell music. The forty-nine bell carillon of the Wellington War Memorial came from' this foundry, the forty-eight bells of the Louvain Library chimes, and the recently completed seventy-two bell carillon of the Riverside Church in New York,-which is the largest in-th©-world..
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 11
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132A NEW CARILLON. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 11
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