FORT WAYNE - FP : USA - IN

*Location:

   First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)
   West Wayne Street at Webster Street
   Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
   LL: N 41.07790, W 85.14309
*Original Location (before 1976):
   West Washington Street
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Chelsea Vaught,   (C)
     Director of Music/Organist
   First Presbyterian Church
   300 West Wayne Street
   Fort Wayne, IN  46802-3673
   T: (260)426-7421 x137
   F: (260)422-5111
   E: cvaught@firstpres-fw.org
   - or -
   E: info@firstpres-fw.org
   - or -
   Jack Rule, Organist Emeritus
   T: (219)747-5987

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Added semitone is flat 7th

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1920
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1920
*Links:

The church Website has a tower photo on the home page, but says nothing about the chime nor about the church history.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Troy) 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 IN.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 21-Sep-19
   based on textual data last updated on 2019/09/13
   and on technical data last updated on 2019/09/13
*Photos:

(none available)

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