BROOKLYN - BSC : USA - NY

*Location:

   North tower
   Blessed Sacrament RC Church
   200 Euclid Avenue, at Fulton Street
   Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, New York, USA
   LL: N 40.68377, W 73.87439
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Blessed Sacrament Rectory
   198 Euclid Avenue
   Brooklyn, NY  11208-1498
   T: (718)827-1200   F: (718)827-2422

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Unplayable.

*Technical data: 

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  5 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1936
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 1993

*Links:

Huge photo from a blog

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 NY.

*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 1994/01/11

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