STATEN ISLAND - STP : USA - NY

*Location:

   St.Peter's Catholic Church
   Carroll Place at St.Peter's Place
   New Brighton,
     Staten Island, New York, USA
   LL: N 40.64719, W 74.08495
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*Player:

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*Contact:

   St.Peter's Church
   53 St.Mark's Place
   Staten Island, NY  10301-1699
   T: (718)727-2672   F: (718)720-9269

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1921
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 1997

*Links:

A local preservation page recounts the early history of the parish up through the construction of this building, for which it gives an extensive architectural description.

A page about the organs of this church has two photos of the building.

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 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/09/16
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/08/07


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