[Bell Historians] Riverside / Chicago (was Oakham G&J)

[jimhedgcock]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "David Cawley" <dcawley at w...> 
wrote:
> Don't have the Riverside figures to hand, but Chicago University 
were being cast at the same time. Again 72 bells, this carillon in 
C#. 

The fact that the Chicago carillon may be better than Riverside may 
lie in the fact that it was cast as a complete instrument at the same 
time, and remains the largest and heaviest to have been so done. 
There is a sound clip on the North American Carillons site with the 
bass bells swinging. There is an excellent article on the carillon 
in The Society of Engineers Journal & Transactions Vol xx111 
July/September 1932, No.3.
Riverside carillon was composed of new bells from G&J and the Park 
Avenue Baptist Church carillon. The Van Bergen bells have been 
replaced by Whitechapel.
I understand that Van Bergen would have had the lot out were it not 
for the difficulties in getting the big ones out.
On Oakham, I was told today that in 1910 the church was advised to 
have the bells weighed on arrival because the figures supplied by G&J 
were not always accurate. I don't know if they did. Looking at 
Nigel Taylor's figures for the tenor, they should have done!