SAN MATEO : USA - CA

*Location:

   St.Matthew's Episcopal Church
   South El Camino Real & Baldwin Avenue
   San Mateo, California, USA
   LL: N 37.56575, W 122.32728
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Matthew's Church
   *parcel:
     1 South El Camino Real
     San Mateo, CA  94401
   *postal:
     PO Box 648
     San Mateo, CA  94401-0648
   T: (650)342-1481   F: (650)342-5760
   E: office@episcopalstmatthew.org
      natberman@hotmail.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 15 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1964
     with bells made by Taylor      
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

*Links:

The church Website has a small photo of part of the building on the home page, but it doesn't show the freestanding bell tower, and the bells are not mentioned anywhere.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Taylor 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 CA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/10/10
   and on technical data last updated on 1991/09/08


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