*Location:

   South tower
   St.Joseph's Cathedral (Old)
   Franklin and Swan Streets
   Buffalo, New York, USA
   *Temporary location (1912?-77):
   St.Joseph's Cathedral (New)
   Delaware Avenue at West Utica Street

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*Remarks:

   45 bells cast by E.& A.Bollée (or
   Bollée et Fils, Le Mans) in 1866, and
   exhibited at Exposition Universelle in
   Paris in 1867.  44 bells delivered.
   Although the range was 4 octaves, the
   lowest 2 octaves had many missing
   semitones.  A French-made tower clock
   and drum played a tune at 00,06,12,18.
   Structural problems with this tower
   caused most bells to be removed to
   storage.  Bells were installed in the
   "New" cathedral after it was built in
   1912.  In 1915, 43 bells were in the
   tower, 20 connected to keyboard in
   2 2/3 diatonic octaves, C to A; were
   played before late mass on Sundays and
   Feastdays.  Structural problems here
   caused removal to storage in 1927.
   Was reported as 42 bells for years,
   but most bells were stolen over time.
   "New" cathedral demolished c.1977;
   2 bells remain in "Old" cathedral;
   8 are now at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 43 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     C A 20/    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1870
     with bells made by Bollée (except for an unknown number)
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nBM   
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

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Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Bollée bellfoundry.

   This page was built from the database on  5-Jul-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/07/27
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/05/09