*Location:

   Second Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)
   Kingston Pike SW,
     west of Lindsey Place SW
   Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
   LL: N 35.95174, W 83.95052

   Walnut Street and Church Avenue
   Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

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*Player:

   Matthew Mimbs, Music Director

*Contact:

   Second Presbyterian Church
   2829 Kingston Pike
   Knoxville, TN  37919-4697
   T: 865-523-2189
   E: ajohnson/@/2ndpres DOTorg

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Original added semitone flat 7th.
   First electrification in 1946.
   Church moved with bells in 1957, and
   added bells with new controls then.
   Added semitones now flat 7th and flat
   10th.  Autoplay by ChimeMaster added
   in 2022.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     C F   /    NONE  
   Transposition is up  2 semitone(s), i.e., from C to D 
   There are two added semitones
   The instrument was enlarged in 1957
     with bells made by vanBergen        
   Prior history:
     In 1907, the instrument was begun with 10 bells
       by McShane         
       Keyboard range was:     D E   /    ----  
       Transposition was nil (concert pitch)
       There was one added semitone
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  * meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:   (unknown)
     Height of highest level of bells:  (unknown)
     Belfry openness:   5%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2025

The church Website has a dim silhouette of the tower in the background, and a better (but smaller) photo in the series which rotates through the home page.  But there is no mention of these bells, and no photo of the preceding building which also housed them.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the McShane bellfoundry.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the vanBergen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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 TN.

   This page was built from the database on  1-Aug-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/07/25
   and on technical data last updated on 2025/07/25