SAYRE : USA - PA

*Location:

   Church of the Redeemer (Episcopal)
   South Wilbur Avenue & Park Place
   Sayre, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 41.98025, W 76.51855

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Church of the Redeemer
   201 South Wilbur Avenue
   Sayre, PA  18840-1605
   T: (570)888-2270
   E: credeemer@stny.rr.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Independent electric keyboard near
   organ.
   Also an 1888 McShane bell (E 2000 lb),
   formerly swinging, now hour strike.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1974
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

The church Website has a small drawing of the building in all page headings.  The bells are mentioned on the History page, where the chime is incorrectly identified as a carillon.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen 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 PA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/12/27
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/01/01

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