*Location:

   St.Joseph's RC Church
   High Street, near Boynton Road
   Medford, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 42.41946, W 71.11394

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Joseph's Rectory
   114 High Street
   Medford, MA  02155-3882
   T: (781)396-3860   F: (781)391-2919

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bequest of Thomas E. Dwyer, which also
   provided a 4-bell clock chime for
   St.Joseph's RC Church in Wakefield MA
   at the same time.
   Original action both hand & electric.
   (Re-)electrified in 1963.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1924
     with bells made by McShane     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nC    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1928

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the McShane bellfoundry.

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 MA.

   This page was built from the database on 22-Oct-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/08/15
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/01/01