HANCEVILLE : USA - AL

*Location:

   Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament
   Our Lady of the Angels Monastery
   3222 County Road 548
   Hanceville, Alabama, USA
   LL: N 34.05561, W 86.68776

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Our Lady of the Angels Monastery
   3222 County Road 548
   Hanceville, AL  35077
   T: (205)271-2917

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Dedicated Dec.1999; 11 of the bells
   reportedly are at least a century older;
   new bells were blessed here.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1999
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008

*Links:

On the monastery Website, see the Photo Gallery for a picture of the bell tower.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

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 AL.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/10/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/10/02

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