COBOURG : CANADA - ON

*Location:

   St.Peter's Anglican Church
   College Street, near King Street East
   Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
   LL: N 43.96090, W 78.16248

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*Player:

   Heather Godfrey
   E: heather DOTgodfrey /@/ sympatico DOTca
   - and -
   Kay MacLeod
   E: kmacleod /@/eagle DOTca

*Contact:

   St.Peter's Anglican Church
   *parcel:
     240 College Street
     Cobourg, ON
   *postal:
     Box 113
     Cobourg, ON  K9A 4K2
   T: (905)372-3442   F: (905)372-1940
   E: info@stpeterscobourg.org
   - or -
   Jim Weller
   E: jpweller /@/eagle DOTca

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1905
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

*Links:

The church Website includes several photos of the building, and mentions the chime on the History page.

A page about the Oshawa chime includes a photo of the chimestand here (note the novel playing technique to compensate for the absence of pedals).

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 ON.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/09/20
   and on technical data last updated on 1975/07/20

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