BROOKLYN - STTH : USA - NY

*Location:

   St.Thomas' Episcopal Church
   Bushwick Avenue at Cooper Street
   Brooklyn, New York, USA
   LL: N 40.68485, W 73.90972
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*Player:

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*Contact:

   St.Thomas Church
   1405 Bushwick Avenue
   Brooklyn, NY  11207-1408
   T: (718)452-2332   F: (718)452-1355
   E: stthomasb@optonline.net
      gramlag@aol.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Hemispherical bells (chimola)

*Technical data: 

   Electric-keyboard chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1924
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 2000

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the building. 

A diocesan page has a B/W photo of the building.

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).
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 10-Nov-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/11/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/08/08

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