LARAMIE : USA - WY

*Location:

   St.Matthew's Episcopal Cathedral
   (formerly St.Matthew's Church)
   3rd & Ivinson Streets
   Laramie, Wyoming, USA
   LL: N 41.31216, W 105.59316

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*Player:

   (None; inoperable)

*Contact:

   St.Matthew's Cathedral
   104 South 4th Street
   Laramie, WY  82070-3162
   T: (307)742-6608   F: (307)742-2372
   E: khdwhite@aol.com

*Schedule:

   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters,
   hour at the fifth, 0700-2300 from
   E.Howard tower clock, S/N 3395, hand-
   wound weekly (hour & quarter trains
   now motor-wound).

*Remarks:

   Added semitones: flat 7th & sharp 4th.
   Chimestand removed in 1972; bellows
   for 5-stage pneumatic motors added in
   level below belfry, with electric
   control from organ console stops on
   great and pedal divisions.  Chime and
   clock (above belfry) built into tower
   during its construction in 1916-17.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     F G   /    F G   
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1917
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 2009

*Links:

The Cathedral Website has a small photo of the building in the upper left corner of every page.  The History page mentions the chime and hand-wound tower clock, though the name and city of the bellfounder are mis-spelled [Dec'09].

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) bellfoundry.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in WY.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 10-Nov-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/11/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2009/08/12

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