PROVIDENCE - STMI : USA - RI

*Location:

   St.Michael the Archangel RC Church
   Oxford Street, between Croyland Road
     and Gordon Avenue
   Providence, Rhode Island, USA
   LL: N 41.80162, W 71.41459
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*Player:

   Joyce Bernau, Organist

*Contact:

   Fr. Raymond B. Malm, Rector
   St.Michael's Rectory
   239 Oxford Street
   Providence, RI  02905-2096
   T: (401)781-7210   F: (401)461-6164

*Schedule:

   Special occasions only.

*Remarks:

   Keyboard near organ in rear balcony.
   Added semitone is flat 7th.

*Technical data: 

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  3 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    NONE  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1939
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 1993

*Links:

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Troy) 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 RI.

*Status: 

   This page was built from the database on  4-Sep-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/09/03
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/08/22

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