*Location:
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church Newark, New Jersey, USA
*Remarks:
Hemispherical bells (Chimola); location uncertain, as present church by this name has never had bells of any kind.
*Technical data:
Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 16 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
Transposition is down 8 semitone(s)
Keyboard range: B G / ----
There are no missing bass semitones
The whole instrument was installed in 1927
with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
Year of latest technical information source is 2000
*Links:
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) bellfoundry.
Index to North American chimolas.
Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Index to all tower bell instruments in NJ.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 24-Aug-02 based on textual data last updated on 2002/07/20 and on technical data last updated on 2001/08/18
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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