READING - STP : USA - PA

*Location:

   St.Paul's Catholic Church
   North 9th Street at Walnut Street
   Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 40.33774, W 75.91990
Site locator map

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Paul's Catholic Church
   151 North 9th Street
   Reading, PA  19601
   T: (610)372-1351

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1879
     with bells made by McShane     
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1890
*Links:

A visitor-review page has a tiny photo of the building, with links to a page of photos of the exterior and interior.

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.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 22-Oct-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/05/01
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/08/30
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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