*Location:
Rockingham Centre (Civic Centre)
Central Promenade & Contest Parade
Rockingham,
Western Australia, Australia
LL: S 32.28667, E 115.74715
*Ringers' contact(s):
Ron Chapman 9 Hamilton Place Safety Bay, WA 6169 H: 8/9526 0271 W: 8/9225 1234 E: ronchapman2@bigpond.com
Verify the current ringers' contact(s) at the ANZAB Website.
*Contact:
City of Rockingham Civic Boulevard Rockingham WA 6168 T: (08)9528 0333 F: (08)9592 1705 E: council@rockingham.wa.gov.au
*Schedule:
Practice Monday 1830-2030 (except 3rd)
*Remarks:
In Alcoaland; #5,6 by G&J, 1926, ex trebles of St. Paul, Canonbury, Islington, north London (see PERTH - C); plus 4 by Whitechapel, 1990, plus 2 trebles by Whitechapel.
*Technical data:
Ring of 8 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is F in the treble octave
Transposition is not applicable
Keyboard range: ROPE / NONE
There are no added semitones
The whole instrument was installed in 1996
with bells made by Whitechapel (except for 2)
Year of latest technical information source is 1996
*Links:
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Where the newest part of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel bellfoundry,
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Index to all tower bell instruments in Australia.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 21-Dec-11 based on textual data last updated on 2011/12/02 and on technical data last updated on 1996/06/06
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