*Location:

   First Congregational Church (NACCC)
   Elm Street at Stedman Avenue
   Braintree, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 42.22144, W 71.00327

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*Remarks:

   Original church bell (1713 or older)
   possibly destroyed in great storm of
   1869, eventually replaced in 1913 by a
   Vanduzen bell, retained when chime
   was acquired.
   Independent keyboard in choir loft
   transposed from C; organ connection is
   non-transposing in G.
   1996: tower taken down, chime bells sold,
   Vanduzen bell remounted on front lawn.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   Transposition is up  5 semitone(s), i.e., from C to F 
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1925
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: OEnC  
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1994

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 Meneely (Troy) bellfoundry.

   This page was built from the database on  5-Jul-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/07/04
   and on technical data last updated on 2007/07/04