Howard Memorial Chimes

*Location:

   First Congregational Church (UCC)
   East Main and Clay Streets
   Malone, New York, USA
   LL: N 44.84913, W 74.28746

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   First Congregational Church
   2 Clay Street
   Malone, NY  12953-1930
   (or PO Box 349)
   T: 518-483-3950
   E: church1883@gmail.com
   - or -
   Gail Bessette, Historian
   Hicks Road
   Malone, NY  12953
   H: 518-483-1247

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tenor, atop frame, originally swung.
   Meneely/Troy foundry record shows 1st
   9 bells delivered May 1886 to Presb.
   Church, and 2 "W.T." added (no date);
   this was a union church (Presbyterian
   and Congregational) from 1817 to 1962.
   Church history mentions only one bell
   added after WW I as a memorial.
   Another source shows 9 M/T from 1884,
   with 2 Meneely/Watervliet added 1926,
   at St.Mark's Episcopal Church;
   both sources are partially wrong.
   Electrified when expanded, with
   keyboard bes`ide organ console;
   chimestand was removed.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The instrument was enlarged in 1926
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt 
   Prior history:
     In 1886, the instrument was begun with  9 bells
       by Meneely/Troy
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nCnS1 
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024

The church Website opens with a series of large photos of the building, in which the tower is prominent, and some of the bells can be seen.  The church history mentions the chime.

A Wikipedia article about the church has a brief history but no photos.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Troy) bellfoundry.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) 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 16-Aug-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/08/12
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/08/12