*Location:

   St.James Lutheran Church (ELCA)
   Stratton Street & Lincoln Hwy. (PA-116)
   Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 39.83084, W 77.22875

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.James Lutheran Church
   109 York Street
   Gettysburg, PA  17325
   T: (717)334-2012

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Contract awarded June 1929,
   for electric action, funded by bequest of
   William H. Dull.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 11 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 1929
     with bells made by McShane     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1929

The church Website has a small photo of the building on the home page.  The church history does not mention any bells.

A local newspaper article (The Gettysburg Times, Tuesday 25 Jun 1929, p1) reported the signing of a contract for 11 bells, with keyboard at the organ console, or automatic play, to be funded from a bequest of William H. Dull.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the McShane 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 PA.

   This page was built from the database on 20-Feb-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/02/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/02/02