SPRINGFIELD - IC : USA - IL

*Location:

   Immaculate Conception Cathedral (RC)
   South 6th Street & East Lawrence Avenue
   Springfield, Illinois, USA
   LL: N 39.79340, W 89.64835

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Immaculate Conception Cathedral
   *parcel:
     524 East Lawrence
     Springfield, IL  62703
   *postal:
     PO Box 1667
     Springfield, IL  62705
   T: (217)522-3342   F: (217)522-1151

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Second largest bell installed 1927.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1928
     with bells by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 1999

*Links:

A photo (49KB) of the Cathedral

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Troy) 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 IL.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/08/28
   and on technical data last updated on 1999/06/30

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