ATLANTA - STB : USA - GA

*Location:

   St.Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
   LaVista Road NE (GA-236),
     btwn Sheffield Drive & Carolyn Drive
   Atlanta, Georgia, USA
   LL: N 33.81734, W 84.32844

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*Player:

   Brad A. Hughley, Director of Music
   E: brad@stbartsatlanta.org

*Contact:

   St.Bartholomew's Church
   1790 LaVista Road NE
   Atlanta, GA  30329-3604
   T: (404)634-3336   F: (404)634-0505
   E: stbarts@stbartsatlanta.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Freestanding open steel tower.
   Refurbished in 1996.  Keyboard slides
   out of cupboard in organ case
   (by Rosales, Los Angeles, CA).

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the treble octave
   Transposition is up 15 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1963
     with bells made by Taylor      
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003

*Links:

The church Website has a comprehensive page about the bells, with a good variety of photos.

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 GA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 16-Apr-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/04/13
   and on technical data last updated on 2003/05/09

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