NORTH ANDOVER : USA - MA

*Location:

   First-Calvary Baptist Church (ABC)
   Chickering Road & Massachusetts Avenue
   North Andover, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 42.68821, W 71.12198
*Former Location (197_ to 1991):
   First-Calvary Baptist Church
   Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
*Former Location (1965 to 197_):
   Whittemore Associates, Inc.
   3 Wexford Street
   Needham Heights, Massachusetts, USA
*Former Location (1951 to 1965):
   Whittemore Associates, Inc.
   16 Ashburton Place
   Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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*Player:

   Donald Ketzler

*Contact:

   First-Calvary Baptist Church
   586 Massachusetts Avenue
   North Andover, MA  01845-4537
   T: (978)685-1502
   E: office@first-calvary-baptist.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Player mechanism destroyed by fire,
   1988; bells intact.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up two octaves
   Keyboard range:     F G   /    NONE  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1991
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen in 1951
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

*Links:

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen 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 MA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 21-Apr-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/04/20
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/07/17


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