*Location:

   Church of the Holy Name
   (Church of Northern India
     [United Protestant] )
   4, Guruwar Peth
   Vithalwadi Road
   Pune (Poona),
     Panch Howd, Maharashtra, India
   LL: N 18.50515, E 73.86096

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   The Church of the Holy Name
   4, Guruwar Peth
   Panch Howd, Pune 411042
   T: (20)24492370

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Chimed only, via short clapper ropes;
   tower cracked.  Hung for ringing, but
   never roped nor rung as such.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ROPE  /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1893
     with bells made by Taylor      
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nR    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1993

News article (11 Aug 2023) on chiming here, with photos of the tower and the bells.

The church once had a Facebook presence and a Website, but the last Facebook post was made in 2015, and the Website is now gone.  However, an archived version of the home page has information about the tower and bells.

Facebook photo of the tower

YouTube video (3:03)

A page about the 4 churches in Pune has a small photo of the building, and mentions the bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Taylor bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in India.

   This page was built from the database on  8-Sep-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/08/12
   and on technical data last updated on 1991/11/17