*Location:

   First Presbyterian Church
   Fifth Street South at Wellington St W
   Chatham, Ontario, Canada
   LL: N 42.40462, W 82.18561

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*Player:

   (unknown)

   Nov1928 ded. Franklin L.S. Walter,
     of McShane

*Contact:

   First Presbyterian Church
   60 Fifth Street S
   Chatham, ON  N7L 4V7
   T: (519)352-2313   F: (519)352-2318
   E: office@firstchatham.org

*Schedule:

   No regular schedule;
   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters

*Remarks:

   F.L.S.Walter supervised installation
   with both manual and electric action
   and automatic clock;
   added semitones sharp 4th & flat 7th.
   Original chimestand removed; vendor
   of current electric action unknown.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard (from organ) chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  2 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    NONE
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1928
     with bells made by McShane
   Auxiliary mechanisms: W4nCE
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2016

The church Website opens with a large photo of the building, but unfortunately the interesting bell tower is not in view, and the bells are not mentioned anywhere.  In Google StreetView, as the bells are quite visible in the octagonal belfry. 

A local newspaper article from 1928 has a photo of the bells on the ground before installation.

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 ON.

   This page was built from the database on  5-Nov-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/10/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/10/30