KINSTON : USA - NC

*Location:

   First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)
   Darby Avenue at North Heritage Street
   Kinston, North Carolina, USA
   LL: N 35.28292, W 77.58738
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   First Presbyterian Church
   2101 North Heritage Street
   Kinston, NC  28501
   T: (252)522-1921  F: (252)522-1922
   E: info@fpckinston.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Added semitones are sharp 4th & flat
   7th in the first octave.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up one octave
   Keyboard range:     C G   /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 2013
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2013
*Links:

The church Website has a small photo of the building and the freestanding bell tower on the Brief History page (in the About Us section).  But there is no mention of these bells.

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 NC.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  7-Jun-13
   based on textual data last updated on 2013/06/07
   and on technical data last updated on 2013/06/07
*Photos:

(none available)


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