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Harkness Tower at Yale University

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Anna M. Harkness donates a ten-bell Taylor chime in memory of her son, Charles William Harkness (class of 1883), which was dedicated on December 9, 1922.

Florence S. Marcy Crofut donated another 44 Taylor bells in memory of her parents Sidney W. and Lucy E. Crofut that were dedicated on October 2, 1966 with recitals given by Charles T. Chapman, Melvin C. Corbett, Bruce H. Eberle, and William D. Farnam.


References
1935 "S.W. Crofut, Director of Bank, Dies." Hartford Courant, June 13, 1935, Page 1 | Part 2 |

1966 "$100,000 in Bells," Hartford Courant, May 19, 1966, Page 19.

1966 "Yale Carillons To Be Dedicated," Hartford Courant, September 26, 1966, Page 20.

1967 "The Yale Memorial Carillon," Bulletin of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America 18(1):6-11 (May 1967)

2012  "A Haptically Accurate Practice Carillon" by Joseph B. Brink, Ying (Jean) Zheng, and John B. Morrell, IEEE Haptics Symposium

Yale Memorial Carillon  

Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs 


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