RIVERSIDE - FCC : USA - CA

*Location:

   First Congregational Church (UCC)
   Lemon Street at Mission Inn Avenue
   Riverside, California, USA
   LL: N 33.98167, W 117.37174
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*Player:

   Linda Corbitt
   PO Box 1476
   Corona, CA  92878
   T: (951)737-5696   F: (951)737-7352

*Contact:

   First Congregational Church
   *parcel:
     3755 Lemon Street
     Riverside, CA  92501
   *postal:
     PO Box 1648
     Riverside, CA  92502-1648
   T: (909)684-2494   F: (909)778-0309
   E: fccucc@sbcglobal.net

*Schedule:

   Automatic at noon daily

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard (from organ) carillon of 24 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up one octave
   Keyboard range: (G) C C   /    ----  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1989
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 1994

*Links:

The church Website opens with a photo of the tower plus a background drawing of the tower and building.  Additional illustrations and information can be found on the About Us / Our History and Our Building pages.

News article on repair work planned for the tower

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

Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by weight.
Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in CA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 12-Jun-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/06/09
   and on technical data last updated on 1995/03/29


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