*Location:

   NIBCO Centennial Bell Tower
   Middlebury Street at Denver Street
   Elkhart, Indiana, USA
   LL: N 41.68268, W 85.94257

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   The Borger Group, LLC
   200 NIBCO Parkway, Suite 303
   Elkhart, IN  46516
   T: (574)293-1524   F: (574)293-4760
   W: www.theborgergroup.com
   E: (Webform)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Dedicated 12 Nov 2004; plaque
   recognizes Thomas J Borger of NIBCO

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 17 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range: (  )----  /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2004
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2016

The company Website has a photo page with six photos of the tower - one including the dedicatory plaque - but no text.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen 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 IN.

   This page was built from the database on 27-Jun-18
   based on textual data last updated on 2018/06/26
   and on technical data last updated on 2016/09/06