RIDGEWOOD : USA - NY

*Location:

   St.Aloysius Catholic Church
   Onderdonk Avenue at Stockholm Street
   Ridgewood, Queens County,
     New York, USA
   LL: N 40.70788, W 73.91404
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Aloysius Rectory
   382 Onderdonk Avenue
   Ridgewood, NY  11385-1399
   T: (718)821-0231   F: (718)628-7304
   E: jyoung1935@yahoo.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Uncertain which tower holds these
   bells, though probably the NW one.

*Technical data: 

   Electric-keyboard chime of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     D#--  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1925
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

Where 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.

*Status: 

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/09/08
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/01/01

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