PAOLI : USA - PA

*Location:

   Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan
   West Lancaster Avenue
   Paoli, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 40.04156, W 75.48992

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Church of the Good Samaritan
   212 West Lancaster Avenue
   Paoli, PA  19301-1758
   T: (610)644-4040  or  -6198
   F: (610)644-1904
   E: gdsam212@good-samaritan.org
      info@good-samaritan.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F# in the middle octave
   Transposition is down 1 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     G B   /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1930
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 1974

*Links:

The church Website has no photo of the bell tower and says nothing about these bells, even in the otherwise extensive Music section.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) 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.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 21-Sep-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/09/20
   and on technical data last updated on 1975/07/20

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