*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

Site locator map

*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:

   Silent since before the pandemic;
   repairs needed

*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
   renovation of the 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
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1978
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen    
   Auxiliary mechanisms: W6nInE
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

The church Website has a photo of the building on the Location page, but says nothing about the bells.

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.

   This page was built from the database on  2-Mar-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/01/14
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/07/08