WEST TORONTO : CANADA - ON

*Location:

   St.John's (West Toronto)
     Anglican Church
   Humberside and Quebec Avenues
   West Toronto,
     Toronto, Ontario, Canada
   LL: N 43.66050, W 79.46920

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   St.John's Church
   288 Humberside Avenue
   Toronto, ON  M6P 1L5
   T: (416)763-2393
   E: info@sjwt.ca
   - or -
   James Bailey, Director of Music
   T: (416)530-4147
   E: jbarch@sympatico.ca

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  3 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C E   /    ----  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1924
     with bells made by Gillett & Johnston
   Year of latest technical information source is 2001

*Links:

The church Website has no photo of the building. The previous Website mentioned the chime in a long History page, but that seems to have been forgotten.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Gillett & Johnston bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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 21-Sep-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/09/20
   and on technical data last updated on 2000/12/16

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