[Bell Historians] Re: Bells in organs (Carillon stop)

[Richard Offen]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "LOVE, Dickon" 
<dickon.love at a...> wrote:
> RCO:
> "I would have said that it was perfectly possible for the carillon 
to 
> have been sold for scrap - I can think of lots of bells that were 
> scrapped in the 1960s that simply shouldn't have been!"
> 
> It does seem strange to me that in storing the organ, some of it is
> scrapped. Did they also scrap one or more of the ranks of pipes? 
And if it
> was stored because it was historical, it is even more astonishing 
that they
> would scrap the very thing that made the organ unique!
> 
> I have got the tuning details of the old and new carillon for the, 
yet to be
> published, CBofW.
> 
> DrL

If my memory serves me right, the carillon was taken out well before 
the organ. It was in a separate swell chamber, so could be easily 
dismantled without disturbing the rest of the organ.

R