DUNDEE : SCOTLAND-AN

*Location:

   St.Andrew's Church
   St.Andrew's Place (off Cowgate)
   Dundee, Tayside (Angus), Scotland
   OS Ref. NO 403 305
   LL: N 56.46454, W 2.96834

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page (County is wrong; other data are correct.)

*Player:

  (unknown)

*Contact:

   Rev. Ian D Petrie
   77 Blackness Avenue
   Dundee, Scotland
   E: petrieducan@aol.com
   - or -
   St.Andrew's Church
   2 King Street
   Dundee  DD1 2JB
   T: 01382/224860

*Schedule:

  (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Added semitones are sharp 4th (#9) and
   its octave (#2), flat 7th (b6),
   sharp 9th (#4).
   Keyboard range assumed from number.
   Tower clock by James Ivory of Dundee.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  6 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C G   /    ----  
   There are four added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1948
     with bells made by Whitechapel 
   Year of latest technical information source is 1976

*Links:

The church Website has a tiny photo of the building on the History page, but there is no mention of the bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all British Isles chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all British Isles chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all British Isles chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Scotland.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 17-Jan-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/01/17
   and on technical data last updated on 2007/01/17

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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