*Location:
Fountain Street Church (non-denom.)
(was Fountain Street Baptist Church)
Fountain Street at Bostwick Avenue NE
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
LL: N 42.96521, W 85.66713
*Player:
(unknown)
*Contact:
Fountain Street Church 24 Fountain Street NE Grand Rapids, MI 49503-3191 T: (616)459-8386 F: (616)459-4809 E: office@fountainstreet.org
*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Remarks:
First six bells (all swinging) were installed in 1976, replacing a 14-tube Deagan tower chime installed in 1923 by Roy Lofink (see -F/1). Electric keyboard disconnected and lost in recent renovation of organ; tape player system inoperable; two of the six swingers inoperable.
*Technical data:
Chime-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) of 8 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is E in the middle octave
Transposition is unknown
Keyboard range: ---- / ----
There are no added semitones
The whole instrument was installed in 1978
with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
Year of latest technical information source is 2005
*Links:
News article (late 2024) about raising money to fix the bell tower
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
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 MI.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 29-Aug-10 based on textual data last updated on 2010/08/28 and on technical data last updated on 2005/07/08
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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