*Location:

   St.Mark's Evang. Lutheran Church (LCMS)
   Bushwick Avenue & Jefferson Street
   Brooklyn, New York, USA
   LL: N 40.69802, W 73.93408

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*Player:

   (unknown)

   26Nov1891 ded. V.T.Barborka
   c.1914 William Stemmerman, carilloner

*Contact:

   St.Mark's Church Office
   626 Bushwick Avenue
   Brooklyn, NY  11206-6097
   T: (718)453-4040   F: (718)455-5484
   E: deslaw1@gmail.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Made by Henry Stuckstede Bell Foundry
   Co. of St.Louis for Rev.August Emil
   Frey.  Unique chimestand with keys in
   four groups, 3/6/4/3 notes; added
   semitones are sharp 4th & its octave,
   flat 7th, sharp octave.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  1 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C G   /    ----  
   There are four added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1891
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1997

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the first Stuckstede 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.

   This page was built from the database on  5-Nov-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/09/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/09/30