NAIROBI : KENYA

*Location:

   North tower
   All Saints Cathedral Church (Anglican)
   Kenyatta Avenue at Processional Way
   Nairobi, Kenya
   LL: S 1.28883, E 36.81437 z19
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   All Saints Cathedral Church
   *parcel:
     Kenyatta Avenue
     Nairobi
   *postal:
     PO Box 40539
     Nairobi
   T: 20 272 2136   F: 20 272 3040
      732 600 466
   E: info@allsaintsnairobi.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Order placed with Taylor in 1921;
   tower built 1922-24; building not
   complete until after WW II.
   Church became cathedral in 1924.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1921
     with bells made by Taylor      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020
*Links:

The Cathedral Website has no photo of the transept tower; however, under Facilities, a page about The Transept describes the tower and chime.

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

Ranking among all chimes in this region by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all chimes in this region by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all chimes in this region by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Kenya (KE).

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 27-Apr-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/04/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/04/22
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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