GREENWOOD - GBLC : USA - SC

*Location:

   GBLC Building
   (was Greenwood Building and Loan Co.)
   121 West Court Avenue,
     at Long Street
   Greenwood, South Carolina, USA
   LL: N 34.18853, W 82.16074

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*Contact:

   Commission of Public Works
   PO Box 549
   Greenwood, SC  29648-0549
   T: (864)942-8100   F: (864)942-8111
   E: smay@greenwoodcpw.com  [Stacia May]
      info@greenwoodcpw.com

*Schedule:

   Played automatically thrice daily.

*Remarks:

   Greenwood Bldg. & Loan was absorbed in
   a series of bank mergers, which
   eventually resulted in sale of the
   building to present owner.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1963
     with bells made by vanBergen   
   Year of latest technical information source is 2012

*Links:

The CPW Website says nothing about the bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the vanBergen 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 SC.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 20-Mar-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/07/10
   and on technical data last updated on 2012/03/19

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