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2db. North American Chime & Carillon Data Bases.
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These Foundry Searches all show basic location, name, maker, #bells & year.
Foundry and other abbreviations
- commonly used by ALLCHIMES.
Initial Foundry
- tower bell counts 0-9, 10-19, 20-29, etc, matrix.
by Foundry & Country, State, City
by Foundry & Year, State, City
by Year & Foundry, State, City
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Then find additional detail information in the LOCATIONS search below
LOCATIONS - by Country, State and City -
Current & Historical Information - (may take a minute to load)
This is the only option that shows contacts, phones, e-mails, on site observations, ringing times, cradle-to-grave history, clickable websites that we have been able to accumulate.
And locations of major bells, museums, etc., that may be of interest to a bell enthusiast or historian.
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2F. Bell Foundry Information.
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Deagans & all Tubulars - by Country, State and City + comments
Deagans & all tubulars - lots of info, from TowerBells.org
All known Naylor Vickers bells - from George Dawson
Many European Foundries
- lots of info
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2T. The Troy, NY Area, home to 2/3 of American bell founding.
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The Kehn Book **
Clinton Meneely of Troy - all bell sales - voluntarily transcribed into EXCEL 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] or [find all].
The EXCEL line number will show on the left, and you might have to go left and right to get all the info.
So far, since our 1993 use of this somewhat alphabetized transcription, a few bells seem to have escaped recording
from the maze of handwritten information available to Pius Kehn.
Lewis Aspinwall bell foundry in Albany
1835+ - the only bronze bell foundry in New York State not in Troy or NYC - 3 bells verified, more unverified.
Actually there is some interesting history here.
Julius Hanks bells
1824+ - founded in both West Troy and later on in Troy - in the early 1800s - 6 verified, more unverified.
Clinton Meneely Foundry 1872-1952
- history, the Kehns, foundry, videos - and more as found.
Now all closed, Troy was the home of 2/3 of the pre-1950 bellfounding in the United States.
West Troy/Watervliet (across the Hudson River from Troy) had Julius and Oscar Hanks, Andrew Meneely, Oothout
Troy had Eber Jones, Clinton Meneely, Kimberly, Hanks after 1826
site
- Troy Bell Casters info. URL?
site
- by Dan Meneely, grandson of Troy's Clinton Meneely
Article - Meneely Bells of West Troy
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2W. Foundries Casting Bells in America Today.
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Much to our surprise, there is bell founding activity taking place today.
MS - McShane - Glen Burnie, MD - www.MCSHANEBELL.com
- casting some bells at Glen Burnie, MD. Nationwide.
MW - Meeks, Watson & Co. - Georgetown, OH - www.MWBELLS.com - casting all but the largest bells.
ITV - Verdin - Cincinnati, OH - www.VERDIN.com
- Factory and on your site casting.
Casting A C# E G#, 145# 250# 400# 500# 990# bells.
The University of Michigan - The art and science of making bells.
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