EAST ORANGE : USA - NJ

*Location:

   Our Lady Help of Christians Church
   Main Street (Dr.Martin Luther King Jr
     Blvd) at North Clinton Street
   East Orange, New Jersey, USA
   LL: N 40.76438, W 74.21473

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Church of Holy Spirit and Our Lady
     Help of Christians
   17 North Clinton Street
   East Orange, NJ  07017-3596
   T: (973)673-1077   F: (973)676-6494
   E: hsolhc@intac.com
      Omaxo_07111@yahoo.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Restored 1969, with new clavier.
   Rough neighborhood.
   Added semitones: sharp 4th & flat 7th.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1926
     with bells made by Gillett & Johnston
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

On a commercial site, there is a photo page.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Gillett & Johnston bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Index to North American baton-keyboard chimes.

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 NJ.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  3-Sep-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/09/01
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/12/12

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