DEFUNCT

DEFUNCT   SITE

  DEFUNCT

PITTSBURGH - H : USA - PA

*Location:

   Highland Presbyterian Church
   Wellesley & North Highland Avenues
   Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Site locator map is not applicable for defunct sites.

*Remarks:

   Added semitones were sharp 4th & flat
   7th.  Sold in early 1980s to Verdin,
   which dispersed the bells.
   The building no longer exists.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     E F#  /    ----  
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1920
     with bells made by McShane          
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2004
*Links:

More information about this defunct site may be available on the page of North American sites that are no more.

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

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  5-Jul-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/08/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/08/30
*Photos:

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