*Location:
Zion Lutheran Church (LCMS) 21st and Benton Streets St.Louis, Missouri, USA LL: N 38.64834, W 90.20453
*Player:
(unknown)
*Contact:
Zion Lutheran Church 2500 North 21st Street St.Louis, MO 63106-2409 T: (314)231-0382 F: (314)231-0453
*Schedule:
Before & after 1030 Sunday service; ringing at noon and 6pm daily.
*Remarks:
Bells by The Henry Stuckstede Bell Foundry Co., St.Louis. Added semitones are F#,A#,C#,F#. Two bass bells no longer swing; four double-hammered automatics imitate swinging rates on do-mi-sol-do. Chimestand removed; electric keyboard in narthex (was in balcony).
*Technical data:
Electric-keyboard chime of 16 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
Transposition is unknown
Keyboard range: C G / NONE
There are four added semitones
The present keyboard was relocated in 1999
Prior history:
In 1969, the keyboard was replaced
In 1895, the complete instrument was installed
with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
Year of latest technical information source is 2001
*Links:
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the first Stuckstede 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 MO.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 11-Apr-10 based on textual data last updated on 2010/03/28 and on technical data last updated on 2001/11/16
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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