Largest bell in foundry
Albert Kahn Associates, architecture firm. Dedicated on December 4, 1936. Named for Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton, University President from 1920-1925. The carillon in bell chamber was donated in 1935 by Charles Baird, a former athletic director and University graduate of the class of 1895.; 
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; Collection of 53 bells cast by the J. H. Taylor Bell Foundry of Loughborough, England. Largest or Bourdon bell weighs more than 12 tons and has the pitch of E-flat below middle C. The smallest weighs 12 pounds and sounds G-sharp, four and 1/2 octaves above the Bourdon. (source: Encyclopedic Survey, p.1123)
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