*Location:

   St.Luke's Episcopal Church
   North Main & East 4th Streets
   Jamestown, New York, USA
   LL: N 42.09752, W 79.24140

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*Player:

   R.Richard Corbin, Organist

*Contact:

   St.Luke's Episcopal Church
   410 North Main Street
   Jamestown, NY  14701-5088
   - or -
   5 East 4th Street
   Jamestown, NY  14701-5001
   T: (716)483-6405   F: (716)483-6406
   E: stlukes/@/stlukesjamestown DOTorg

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Added semitones sharp 4th, flat 7th.
   Electrified c.1956-7, via stop on Great
   manual of Aeolian-Skinner organ
   installed that year; also an independent
   keyboard in the tower.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard (from organ) chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     C E   /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1894
     with bells made by Vanduzen    
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nC    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

The church Website has a large drawing of the upper tower as a heading for all pages, but it takes up half the screen and cannot be scrolled out of the way.  Another perspective can be found on the Who We Are page, where the bells are mentioned.  But there is no history of the congregation and building.

A news article (1 July 2023) reports details of the major tower restoration project now in progress.

A news article (Jan.2023), reporting on the need to repair the bell tower, included a photo of the building.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Vanduzen 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 18-Sep-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/09/16
   and on technical data last updated on 2010/09/07