NEWARK - BSC : USA - NJ

*Location:

   Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church 
   Newark, New Jersey, USA

*Remarks:

   Hemispherical bells (Chimola); location
   uncertain, as present church by this
   name has never had bells of any kind.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is down 8 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     B G   /    ----  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1927
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 2000

*Links:

There is no locator map for this site.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) bellfoundry.

Index to North American chimolas.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).

Index to all tower bell instruments in NJ.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 24-Aug-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/07/20
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/08/18


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