*Location:

   GBLC Building
   (was Greenwood Building and Loan Co.)
   121 West Court Avenue,
     at Long Street
   Greenwood, South Carolina, USA
   LL: N 34.18816, W 82.16159

Site locator map

*Contact:

   Commission of Public Works
   *parcel:
     121 Court Avenue West
     Greenwood, SC  29646-2749
   *postal:
     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 the present owner.
   Smallest bell lost (stolen?) by 2012

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 17 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is not applicable
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   Bells were removed (as described in Remarks above) in 20xx
   Prior history:
     In 1963, the complete instrument of 18 bells was installed
       with bells made by vanBergen       
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  - meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    7 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:  15 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  98%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2012

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.

   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/12/20
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/12/20