*Location:
South tower St.John the Baptist RC Church John F. Kennedy Boulevard at Brooks Pl. Jersey City, New Jersey, USA LL: N 40.73635, W 74.06286
*Player:
(none)
*Contact:
St.John's Rectory
3026 John F. Kennedy Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ 07306-3695
T: (201)653-8814
E: stjohnthebaptist@intac.com
johns3026/@/comcast DOTnet
RevJMeagher/@/gmail.com*Schedule:
(none)
*Remarks:
Electrified in October 1939; silent since clappers were removed in 1960s to prevent complaints from new neighbors.
*Technical data:
Chime-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) of 10 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 1925
with bells made by Meneely/Troy
Year of latest technical information source is 2003
*Links:
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the
Meneely (Troy) 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 NJ.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11 based on textual data last updated on 2010/09/01 and on technical data last updated on 2003/07/06
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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