BALTIMORE - CL : USA - MD

*Location:

   Christ Lutheran Church (ELCA)
   East Hughes and South Charles Streets
   Baltimore, Maryland, USA
   LL: N 39.28068, W 76.61385
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*Player:

   Larry Fenaroli
*Past chimer:
   1958-2007+ Mr. Frank Hubbard

*Contact:

   Christ Lutheran Church
   701 South Charles Street
   Baltimore, MD  21230-3835
   T: (410)752-7179   F: (410)752-7881
   E: info@christinnerharbor.org
      music@christinnerharbor.org

*Schedule:

   Sundays before 11am service; also for
   weddings, funerals & special events.

*Remarks:

   Original steel bell tower (1958) was
   encased in brick in 1991.  Bass bell,
   on top of frame, also swings.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     D F#  /    NONE  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1958
     with bells made by McShane     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: W1    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2007
*Links:

The church Website does not mention the bells, and none of the exterior photos show the bell tower.

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

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Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in MD.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  3-Mar-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/03/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/02/02
*Photos:

(none available)

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