*Location:

   First Presbyterian Church of Edgewood
   (was Edgewood Presbyterian Church)
   East Swissvale Avenue at School Street
   Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 40.43371, W 79.88387

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   First Presbyterian Church of Edgewood
   120 East Swissvale Avenue
   Pittsburgh, PA  15218
   T: (412)2241-4613
   E: music/@/fpcedgewood DOTorg
      office/@/fpcedgewood DOTorg

*Schedule:

   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters

*Remarks:

   Added semitones sharp 4th, flat 7th;
   bells in southwest tower.
   Edgewood Pres. merged with First Pres.
   Church of Wilkinsburg in 1983.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     E F#  /    ----  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1929
     with bells made by McShane     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: Q4    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1929

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  5-Nov-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/09/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/09/30