Yale Memorial Chime
*Location:
First Congregational Church of Wallingford (UCC) South Main and Center Streets Wallingford, Connecticut, USA LL: N 41.45440, W 72.81872
*Player:
Richard K. Voelker E: rvoelker@ftae.com*Past chimers:
1962-97 Norman F. Bliss (A)
*Contact:
First Congregational Church 23 South Main Street Wallingford, CT 06492-4201 T: (203)265-1691 F: (203)265-0693 E: firstchurchwlfd@snet.net
*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Remarks:
Added semitones are sharp 4th and flat 7th. New keyboard by Verdin has 3-octave range.
*Technical data:
Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 14 bells Pitch of heaviest bell is E in the middle octave Transposition is up 4 semitone(s) Keyboard range: C G / NONE There are two added semitones The present keyboard was installed in 1974 by the maker cited in Remarks above Prior history: In 1927, the complete instrument was installed with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt Year of latest technical information source is 1992
*Links:
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) bellfoundry.
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 CT.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 13-Oct-10 based on textual data last updated on 2010/10/10 and on technical data last updated on 1992/07/17
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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