ASTORIA : USA - NY

*Location:

   Episcopal Church of the Redeemer
   Crescent Street at 30th Road
   Astoria,
     Long Island City,
       Queens, New York, USA
   LL: N 40.76807, W 73.92590

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Redeemer Episcopal Church
   30-14 Crescent Street
   Astoria, NY  11102-3249
   T: (718)278-8093  or  -9130
   E: redeemer_astoria@hotmail.com
      office@redeemer-astoria.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Part of original chimestand remains.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1873
     with bells made by Jones       
   Year of latest technical information source is 1994

*Links:

The Website of this English/Spanish parish has a drawing of the church near the bottom of the home page.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Jones 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 NY.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/09/16
   and on technical data last updated on 1995/04/01

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