NEWTOWN : AUSTRALIA

*Location:

   St.Stephen's Anglican Church
   Church Street at Victoria Street
   Newtown,
     Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
   LL: S 33.89441, E 151.18000

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Stephen's Church Office
   189 Church Street
   Newtown  NSW 2042
   T: 9557 2043

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Hemispherical bells, played from a
   primitive clavier with two rows of
   short fat handles;
   some notes inoperative.
   Cast 1878, initially displayed at 1879
   International Exposition in Sydney.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 20 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     C G   /    NONE  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1880
     with bells made by Whitechapel 
   Year of latest technical information source is 1979

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Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by pitch (weight).
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Index to all tower bell instruments in Australia.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Jan-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2011/12/26
   and on technical data last updated on 2011/12/26

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