This beautiful singing Tower, on the highest elevation in Florida, in beautifully landscaped grounds known as the Sanctuary, was a gift to the people by the late Edward W. Bok.The Singing Tower Carillion has 71 bells with 53 notes, or four and one-half octaves. The total weight of the bells is 123,264 pounds. The tenor bell alone weighs 11 tons, and the smallest 12 pounds. It is the finest and largest carillion ever cast. Height of tower 205 feet, diameter at base 51 feet.
Miami, Fla. March 6, 1931
Visiting Florida
Ames Austin in
Miami & enjoying
Every minute.
Came by boat &
Bought my car.
Limes? And Fruits? From
Tillon? Here Lois
Is entertaining.
Gertrude C.
Mildred Copeland
17 Sefton Drive
Edgewood, R.I.
Now we know what the bells weigh. The same bells you could be hearing if you attend the International Carillon Festival this weekend at Bok Tower Gardens? (Again, I am not a paid sponsor.)
Gertrude fancies herself an imagist poet to her friend Mildred. No historical records for Midred come up in a search, but the house comes up in Google Maps. Edgewood is actually a neighborhood in Cranston, RI, which Seth MacFarlane states as being the inspiration for Family Guy's fictional setting of Quahog.
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