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The carillon was given by Charles M. Baird with 53 bells cast by the John Taylor Bell Foundry in Loughborough, England and was dedicated on December 4, 1936 by Wilmot F. Pratt.
Two bells that were added in 1966 were removed in 2011..
Baird's daughter Ruth Baird Larabee bequeathed a carillon to Texas Tech University that was installed in 1976.
References
1935 "Forty Tons of Bells for U. of M.," Grand
Rapids Press, July 23, 1935, Page 3.
1935 "Work on Burton Memorial Will Get Under Way," The Herald-Palladium, October 21, 1935, Page 9.
1935 "More Money Donated Towards New Carillon," Lansing State Journal, November 1, 1935, Page 9.
1936 "U. of M. Bells Being Cast," Lansing State Journal, February 12, 1936, Page 1.
1936 "Burton
Memorial Nears Completion," Lansing State Journal, June 18,
1936, Page 4.
World's Largest Carillon to Be Installed in U. of M. Tower.
1936 "Bells for Carillon at U.M. Are Ready," Lansing State Journal, July 9, 1936, Page 18.
1936 "Tuning 53 Balls for Ann Arbor Carillon," Livingston County Press and Argus, August 26, 1936, Page 9.
1936 "Bells for Carillon Arrive From Canada," Lansing State Journal, September 15, 1936, Page 3.
1936 "Charles Baird Carillon In Place at Ann Arbor," Lansing State Journal, October 4, 1936, Page 11.
1936 "U. of M. to Dedicate Carillon December 4," The Herald-Press, November 19, 1936, Page 5.
1936 "Shut
Off Traffic For First Concert of U. of M. Carillon," The
Herald-Press, December 4, 1936, Page 13.
City officials ordered streets within an area a half mile square in the
campus district closed this afternoon during the dedicatory concert of
.the University of Michigan's new carillon, that traffic noises might not
mar the first official playing of the bells.
1936 "Baird Carillon of Bells Is Dedicated," The Michigan Alumnus 46:158-160 (December 12, 1936)
1959 "The Baird Memorial Carillon, Ann Arbor, Michigan," Bulletin of the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America 12(1):15-16 (1959)
2013 "The Bells of Michigan," by Steven Ball, Bulletin of the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America 62:23-23 (1997)
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