STILLWATER : USA - MN

*Location:

   St.Michael's RC Church
   South Third Street at Walnut Street E
   Stillwater, Minnesota, USA
   LL: N 45.05117, W 92.80650

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Michael's Rectory
   218 Willard Street East
   Stillwater, MN  55082-5145
   T: (651)439-4400
   E: tgagliardi@costm.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Silenced in 1962; electrified in 1969.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1883
     with bells made by McShane     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2002

*Links:

The church Website has a drawing of the building in all of the page headings.  Under About Our Parish, there is a Parish History section with a small photo of the building plus a long historical Timeline that include several details about this chime, the first in the state.

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

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/03/29
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/02/11

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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