*Location:
Grace Episcopal Church Broadway at West 10th Street New York, New York, USA LL: N 40.73199, W 73.99117
*Player:
(unknown)
*Contact:
Grace Church 802 Broadway New York, NY 10003-4831 T: (212)254-2000 F: (212)673-4938 E: info@GraceChurchNYC.org pallen@gracechurchnyc.org
*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Remarks:
Expansion to final size may have been done in multiple stages. Electropneumatic action from organ replaced original chimestand just after the final enlargement was done, and was replaced by present electric action and independent keyboard in 1998. Parish previously owned the site now occupied by Immaculate Conception RC, and sold those bells with that property.
*Technical data:
Electric-keyboard chime of 20 bells Pitch of heaviest bell is C in the middle octave Transposition is nil (concert pitch) Keyboard range: C G / NONE There are no missing bass semitones The instrument was enlarged in 1925 with bells made by Meneely/Troy Prior history: In 1873, the instrument was begun with 10 bells by Meneely/Wvlt Year of latest technical information source is 1925
*Links:
A page about the organ has a photo of the tower.
Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the
Meneely (Watervliet) bellfoundry.
Where the final phase of 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 12-Apr-06 based on textual data last updated on 2006/04/11 and on technical data last updated on 2006/04/11
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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