*Location:

   Zion United Church of Christ (UCC)
     (was Zion Reformed Church)
   South 2nd & Iron Streets
   Lehighton, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 40.83137, W 75.71027

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Zion United Church of Christ
   225 Iron Street
   Lehighton, PA  18235-2185
   T: (610)377-1191   F: (610)377-1193
   E: office@zionlehighton.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Donated by Mrs.Magina Kistler Mantz;
   added semitone is flat 7th;
   tenor swings and strikes hour.
   Electrified 1946.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     D#F   /    ----  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1923
     with bells made by McShane     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: W1HnC 
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

The church Website has a picture of the neighborhood at the head of each page.  The Photo Gallery page offers several clickable photos of the building.  The Links page offers an aerial view of the neighborhood, in which the tall tower is clearly visible.  But there is no information about the bells.

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 PA.

   This page was built from the database on 22-Oct-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/08/15
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/08/15