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GEORGETOWN : GUYANA

*Location:

   Sacred Heart Catholic Church
   Main Street at Hope Street
   Georgetown, Guyana
   (formerly British Guiana)
Site locator map not applicable for defunct sites.

*Remarks:

   Destroyed by fire on Dec.26, 2004.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1905
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nC    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008
*Links:

This site and its history are more fully described here.

A blogger's article about the city includes photos of the building before and after the fire.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 24-Feb-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/04/01
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/04/01
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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