*Location:

   Church of the Transfiguration
     (Episcopal)
   Hillcrest Road and Spring Valley Road
   Dallas, Texas, USA
   LL: N 32.94113, W 96.78732

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Church of the Transfiguration
   14115 Hillcrest Road
   Dallas, TX  75254-8622
   T: 972-233-1898   F: 972-233-7095
   E: jmartinson@transfiguration.net

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bass bell swings manually.
   Framework provided for future expansion
   to 27 bells, of which 6 are on order
   as of Feb.2014.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 15 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The instrument was enlarged in 2014
     with bells made by Taylor       
   Prior history:
     In 1996, the instrument was begun with  9 bells
       by Taylor      
       Pitch of heaviest bell was C  in the treble octave
       Transposition was up one octave
       Keyboard range was: (G) C C   /    NONE  
       There were no added semitones
   Auxiliary mechanisms: W1    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2014

The church Website has a Church and Grounds page with a small photo of the tower and some information about the bells (incorrectly describing them as "forged").

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Taylor 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 TX.

   This page was built from the database on  4-Nov-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2014/03/05
   and on technical data last updated on 2014/03/05