*Location:

   World's Industrial and Cotton
     Centennial Exposition (1884-5)
   New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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*Remarks:

   Added semitones were sharp 4th and its
   octave, flat 7th; bass bell swung.
   Ordered by Maj.E.A.Burke;
   cost USD 6500; shipped 14 Nov 1884.  This chime
   won a gold medal at the Exposition;
   afterwards, 9 of the bells were sold to
   the Cathedral of the Immaculate Concep-
   tion, Saint John, New Brunswick.
   Disposition of the other 6 is unknown.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 15 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     C G   /    ----  
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   There are three added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1884
     with bells made by McShane          
   Auxiliary mechanisms: W1    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 19**

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 McShane bellfoundry.

   This page was built from the database on  5-Jul-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/08/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/08/30