PAWTUCKET - STP : USA - RI

*Location:

   St.Paul's Episcopal Church
   Park Place East at Church Street
   Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
   LL: N 41.87593, W 71.38695

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*Player:

   Janice Springthorpe

*Contact:

   St.Paul's Church
   50 Park Place
   Pawtucket, RI  02860-4010
   T: (401)728-4300
   E: office@stpaulspawtucket.org

*Schedule:

  (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Keyboard near organ in chancel.
   Added semitone is flat 7th.
   Tower also contains a Revere & Son
   swinging bell, cast in 1817 and hung
   by crown straps.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  5 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    NONE  
   There is one added semitone
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1930
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 1993

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the bell tower at the top of every page.  The Revere bell is mentioned on the History page (under About Us), but the newer bells are not mentioned anywhere.

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

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  4-Sep-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/09/03
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/08/22

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