*Location:

   St.Joseph of the Palisades RC Church
   65th Street at Palisade Avenue
   West New York, New Jersey, USA
   LL: N 40.79189, W 74.01123

Site locator map

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Joseph's Rectory
   6408 Palisade Avenue
   West New York, NJ  07093-2320
   T: (201)854-7006   F: (201)861-7799

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Added semitones sharp 4th & flat 7th;
   tenor swings

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     D E   /    ----  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1927
     with bells made by McShane     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: S1I   
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1997

The church Website (recovered from a 2001 archive) opens with a drawing of the primary bell tower; a larger picture is on the second following page (whether you choose English or Spanish).

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.

   This page was built from the database on  5-Nov-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/09/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/09/30