WINCHESTER - U : USA - MA

*Location:

   Unitarian Church of Winchester
   (First Unitarian Church)
   Main Street at Mystic Valley Parkway
   Winchester, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 42.45092, W 71.03575
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*Player:

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*Contact:

   The Winchester Unitarian Society
   478 Main Street
   Winchester, MA  01890-2989
   T: (781)729-0949   F: (781)729-2577
   E: wus@wus.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 21 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1927
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 1997

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the building on the home page.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) bellfoundry.

Other chimes which qualify as mini-carillons.

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.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  3-Sep-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/09/01
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/05/18


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