*Location:

   St.Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
   Church & Center & Eagle Streets
   North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 42.69996, W 73.10884

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Francis Rectory
   12 Union Street
   North Adams, MA  01247-3593
   T: 413-663-5316   F: 413-663-3938

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Octave with flat 7th;
   original cost $5,600.

   Eb, 2525#
   F,  1620#
   G,  1340#
   Ab, 1069#
   Bb,  848#
   C,   730#
   Db,  650#
   Eb,  454#

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     D#D#  /    NONE  
   Transposition is up  1 semitone(s), i.e., from C to C#
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1872
     with bells made by Jones            
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1994

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Jones 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 10-Mar-26
   based on textual data last updated on 2026/03/08
   and on technical data last updated on 2026/03/08