PALM BEACH : USA - FL

*Location:

   Bethesda-by-the-Sea Church (Episcopal)
   South County Road at Barton Avenue
   Palm Beach, Florida, USA
   LL: N 26.71110, W 80.03707

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Bethesda-by-the-Sea Church
   141 South County Road
   (or 165 Barton Avenue)
   (or PO Box 1057)
   Palm Beach, FL  33480
   T: (561)655-4554  F: (561)832-0140
   E: pysher@bbts.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1927
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

The church Website has a fine photo of the church and its massive stone tower, but the bells are not mentioned anywhere.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) 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 FL.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/11/03
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/12/12

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