MILLWOOD : USA - VA

*Location:

   Christ Church,
     Cunningham Chapel Parish (Episcopal)
   Bishop Meade Highway (VA-255)
     at Colonial Lane
   Millwood, Virginia, USA
   LL: N 39.07207, W 78.03602
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Cunningham Chapel Parish
   *parcel:
     809 Bishop Meade Road
     Millwood, VA  22646
   *postal:
     PO Box 153
     Millwood, VA  22646
   T: (540)837-1112   F: (540)837-1157
   E: cunninghamparish@earthlink.net

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1963
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is unknown

*Links:

The parish Website pictures all three buildings of the parish; "Christ Church" is the one with the chime.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen 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 VA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/01/02
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/05/18


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