MAMARONECK : USA - NY

*Location:

   St.Thomas Episcopal Church
   Mount Pleasant Avenue
     near West Boston Post Road
   Mamaroneck, New York, USA
   LL: N 40.94817, W 73.73501
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*Player:

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*Contact:

   St.Thomas Church
   168 West Boston Post Road
   Mamaroneck, NY  10543-3645
   T: (914)698-0300   F: (914)698-0380
   E: lwerdal@aol.com
      office@saintthomasmmrk.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower clock made in England in 1885.
   First electrified in 1928; again 1952.

*Technical data: 

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  3 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    ----  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1885
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 2001

*Links:

On the church Website the Mission page has a photo of the tower.  The History page mentions the bells and clock.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Troy) 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 10-Sep-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/09/07
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/07/20

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