NEWARK - SHC : USA - NJ

*Location:

   East tower
   Sacred Heart RC Church (Vailsburg)
   South Orange Avenue (NJ-510)
     at Sanford Avenue
   Newark, New Jersey, USA
   LL: N 40.74572, W 74.23205

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Sacred Heart Catholic Church
   481 Sanford Avenue
   Newark, NJ  07106-1697
   T: (973)373-9790   F: (973)374-4047
   E: shvailsburg@intac.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1928
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 2000

*Links:

A photo and history are on a Newark tour site.

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 2009/11/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/07/20

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