*Location:

   First Baptist Church
   Main and Salem Streets
   Malden, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 42.42755, W 71.06682

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*Player:

   Deacon George Fred Estey

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by U.S.Tubular, funded
   largely by Deacon E.S.Converse,
   or by Ephraim L. Corning of Geneva,
   Switzerland, friend of E.H.Converse.
   Destroyed by fire in 1914 or 1915 and
   replaced in 1915 by a chime of
   conventional bells (see MALDEN - 2).

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 15 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1894
     with tubular bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1894

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of its maker.

Index to all tower bell instruments in MA, including the chime that replaced this.

   This page was built from the database on 10-Mar-26
   based on textual data last updated on 2026/03/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/01/28