*Location:
St.Mark's Episcopal Church 19th Street & Central Avenue Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA LL: N 41.13588, W 104.81621
*Player:
(Organist)
*Contact:
St.Mark's Church 1908 Central Avenue Cheyenne, WY 82001-3743 T: (307)634-7709 F: (307)634-7700 E: stmarks307@aol.com - or - Larry Swanson, Junior Warden E: lgs1096 /@/ bresnan DOT net
*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Remarks:
Added semitones: flat 7th & sharp 4th. Original McShane auxiliary electric action, built into chimestand, is now the primary action, from transposing keyboard (also C-D) at the organ; but chimestand is restorable. Also in belfry is original Jones & Co. bell (now unused), gift of St.Mark's, Phila.
*Technical data:
Traditional chime (chimestand) of 11 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is D in the middle octave
Transposition is up 2 semitone(s)
Keyboard range: C D / NONE
There are two added semitones
The whole instrument was installed in 1927
with bells made by McShane
Year of latest technical information source is 2009
*Links:
Video (6:07) giving the history of the church & tower and a brief view of part of the chimestand
A video (6:24) of the "haunted" church has glimpses of the tower access stairway, the bells and the chimestand.
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the McShane 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 WY.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 10-Nov-09 based on textual data last updated on 2009/11/03 and on technical data last updated on 2009/08/12
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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