BROOKLYN - STBA : USA - NY

*Location:

   St.Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
   Pacific Street, near Bedford Avenue
   Brooklyn, New York, USA
   LL: N 40.67794, W 73.95201

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   St.Bartholomew's Church
   1227 Pacific Street
   Brooklyn, NY  11216-3099
   T: (718)467-8750   F: (718)773-7989

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Hemispherical bells (chimola); added
   semitones are sharp 4th & flat 7th.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  3 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1928
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 1997

*Links:

A page about the organ has two pictures of the building.

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).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in NY.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 10-Nov-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/11/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/07/26

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