*Location:
Christ Church ("Old North"; Episcopal)
Salem Street at Hull Street
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
LL: N 42.36643, W 71.05453
*Ringers' contact(s):
Mish Madsen, Tower Captain Random Hall #344 290 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 E: mish@mit.edu - or - Dianne S.P. Cermak, Area Representative 34 Glendoon Road Needham, MA 02492-2311 T: (781)455-6334 E: dspc@comcast.net
Verify the current ringers' contact(s) at the NAGCR Website.
*Contact:
Christ Church 193 Salem Street Boston, MA 02113-1123 T: (617)523-6676 E: congregation/@/oldnorth/./com
*Schedule:
Practice 2d & 4th Sunday 1400-1600, 1st & 3rd & 5th Saturday 1100-1300.
*Remarks:
Bells by Abel Rudhall; the oldest complete ring outside British Isles. Chimed only for many years; rehung for ringing in 1894; rehung in new wood frame in 1983.
*Technical data:
Ring of 8 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is F in the middle octave
Transposition is not applicable
Keyboard range: ROPE / NONE
There are no added semitones
The whole instrument was installed in 1744
by the maker cited in Remarks above
Year of latest technical information source is 1991
*Links:
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Ranking among all North American rings by pitch/weight.
Ranking among all North American rings by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American rings by year of completion.
Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Index to all tower bell instruments in MA.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 21-Jun-10 based on textual data last updated on 2010/05/31 and on technical data last updated on 1991/06/23
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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