DEFUNCT

DEFUNCT   SITE

  DEFUNCT

NORMAL : USA - IL

*Location:

   Bird Colladay Van Leer Memorial Tower
   South Fell Avenue at Francis Street
   Normal, Illinois, USA
Site locator map is not applicable for defunct sites.

*Contact:

   Immanuel Bible Foundation
   3101 South Fell Avenue
   Normal, IL  61761-0364
   T: (309)452-6710
   E: director@ibfoundation.org

*Remarks:

   Bells removed from tower c.1971 for
   trade to Verdin for an electronic
   device, which was thrice destroyed
   by lightning.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1940
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nC    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2001
*Links:

The tower remains standing, and is now owned by the Immanuel Bible Foundation.

More information about this defunct site may be available on the page of North American sites that are no more.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely/Troy bellfoundry.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  5-Jul-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/06/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/01/15
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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