*Location:
Mater Dolorosa (west) tower Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart Victoria Avenue at Ridge Street Newark, New Jersey, USA LL: N 40.75453, W 74.17882
*Player:
(unknown)
*Contact:
Sacred Heart Rectory 89 Ridge Street Newark, NJ 07104-1029 T: (973)484-4600 - or - Office for Music Ministries T: (973)484-2400 F: (973)497-9336 E: jmiller@cathedralbasilica.org - or - Archdiocese of Newark 171 Clifton Avenue, PO Box 9500 Newark, NJ 07104-0500 T: (973)497-4000
*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Remarks:
Bells by Daciano Colbachini e Figli, Saccolongo, Padua, Italy. Keyboard adjacent to organ console in south gallery. Claimed to be the fifth largest cathedral in the nation.
*Technical data:
Electric-keyboard chime of 14 bells Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown Transposition is unknown Keyboard range: ---- / ---- The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown. The whole instrument was installed in 1953 by the maker cited in Remarks above Year of latest technical information source is 1997
*Links:
Building photos
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Where this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
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 NJ.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11 based on textual data last updated on 2007/08/20 and on technical data last updated on 2001/08/07
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