*Location:

   St.Matthew's Church
   Hope & Stafford Streets
   Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
   LL: S 45.88000, E 170.49788

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*Player:

   Dr Jim Faed

*Contact:

   St.Matthew's Church
   30 Hope Street
   Dunedin, Otago  9016
   T: (03)477-8908   F: (03)477-2858
   E: office/@/stmatthews DOTco DOTnz

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tubular bells by Harrington & Latham,
   Coventry; dedicated June 1906.
   Wood handles on ropes in chiming rack.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 13 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1906
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2010

The church Website does not mention this chime, but does have a photo of the tower on the Contact page.  A huge photo of the building and tower may still be available.
The church's Facebook presence includes a few photos of the building in its very long photo gallery.

Two original news articles (dated 13 June 1906 and 15 Pipiri 1906) report the dedication of this chime.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of its maker.

Ranking among all tower tube instruments by size (number of notes).

Index to all tower tube instruments in the world.
Index to all tower bell instruments in New Zealand.

   This page was built from the database on 30-Jan-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/01/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2009/11/25