*Location:
St.John the Evangelist Catholic Church Ridge and White Streets Orange, New Jersey, USA LL: N 40.77692, W 74.23284
*Player:
(unknown)
*Contact:
Rev. Robert J. Patterson, Pastor St.John's Rectory 94 Ridge Street Orange, NJ 07050-1604 T: (973)674-0110 E: stjohn@intac.com - or - Vincent Clark, organist
*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Remarks:
Three bells (D,E,F#) made in Italy in 1878 and shown at Paris Exposition that year, then bought for here. Added semitones are F#, A#. Original chimestand removed.
*Technical data:
Electric-keyboard chime of 11 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is C in the middle octave
Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
Keyboard range: C D / NONE
There are two added semitones
The whole instrument was installed in 1881
with bells made by McShane (except for 3)
Year of latest technical information source is 1991
*Links:
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the McShane 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 NJ.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 14-Dec-08 based on textual data last updated on 2008/11/14 and on technical data last updated on 1992/12/31
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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