Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

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A 5-bell Meneely (Watervliet) chime was installed in 1880, to which two bells were added in 1905.

An additional eleven Petit & Fritsen bells were installed in 1976 by Verdin. The church then asked Richard Watson for a proposal to expand the chime to a full carillon. He proposed that 43 bells were installed as funds became available.

The expansion began in 2012 when the existing were removed and shipped to Meeks, Watson & Company for returning. They were reinstalled along with six new bells cast by Meeks & Watson.

The carillon was first played on February 19, 2018.

References
1879 Petaluma Weekly Argus, December 12, 1879, Page 4.
Trinity Episcopal Church, at San Jose, is shortly of have a chime of five bells, weighing, aggregately, 3,000 pounds. The church tower is now being prepared to receive them.

2017 "Trinity Cathedral bells again ring out in downtown San Jose," Mercury News, December 6, 2017.
The five largest bells at Trinity were originally cast in 1879-80 by the famed Meneely Bell Foundry in Troy, N.Y., and were installed in the bell tower that had been erected just a few years earlier. More bells were added over the next century, including several that were gifted for the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976, bringing Trinity’s total to 18 — short of the 23 required to be considered a carillon. So Trinity’s bells were known as a chime.
With a bit of fanfare, Trinity’s 18 bells were removed in late 2013 to be “retuned” — a process that involves using a lathe to remove a layer of metal on the bell, reducing the instrument’s dissonant harmonies. They were then shipped to Meeks, Watson & Co., a foundry in Georgetown, Ohio, and expected to be returned a year later with six new bells that were purchased as part of a fundraising campaign.
But the foundry’s work schedule was very backlogged and Trinity had to wait four years. To put that in Silicon Valley terms, between the time the bells were removed and their reinstallation last month, Apple released no fewer than six versions of the iPhone.
Bill Meeks of the Ohio foundry — who was on hand for the massive bells’ removal in 2013 — oversaw the installation in mid-November, as the bells were hoisted up to the tower. A whole new playing set-up was installed, too, including guides and cables and a wood console. The bell-ringers play the console with their fists, but they’ll have to get used to the larger console and a new feature on the “modern” version — foot pedals.
“The great thing of bells is they show you something working together and working beautifully and giving you the right sound,” said the Rev. David Bird, Trinity’s dean and rector. “I’ve seen this city try incredibly hard to do that.”

2018 "A New Carillon in California," by Paul Archambeault and Margo Halsted, Carillon News 99(4):18-19 (April 2018)
The first public concert took place on Monday, February 19, 2018 (President’s Day). Performing were Paul Archambeault, the Carillon Project Lead, Janet Vong, an associate carillonneur member of the GCNA, Greg Calkins, David Anthony, and Paige Liu

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Carillon