*Location:

   St.Edward the Confessor Anglican Church
   34660 - 103rd Street (near 350 Avenue)
   Oliver, British Columbia, Canada
   LL: N 49.1808, W 119.5557

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*Player:

   Penelope Johnson
   E: reidjohn@vip.net
   - and -
   Mr. Chris Yerburgh
   - and -
   Mrs. Cynthia Jones
   - and -
   Mrs. Roseanne Atkinson

*Contact:

   St.Edward the Confessor Church
   Box 348
   Oliver, BC  V0H 1T0
   T: 250-498-0183  or  -2559
   E: reidjohn@vip.net  [Rector]
   E: jpotter@img.net   [Warden]

*Schedule:

   For Sunday services and special events.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is B  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   Transposition is up 11 semitone(s), i.e., from C to B 
   There are no added semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 1952
     with bells made by Whitechapel  
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2000

The church Website has a sketch of the building and describes the chime (both on the Our Church page).

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

Index to North American baton-keyboard chimes.

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 BC.

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/04/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/02/16