REGINA - WP : CANADA - SK

   Wascana Chimes

*Location:

   Wascana Place (Wascana Centre)
   Wascana Drive, west of Broad Street
   Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
   LL: N 50.43246, W 104.60688

   Holy Trinity Church
   Milestone, Saskatchewan, Canada

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*Contact:

   Wascana Centre Authority
   Box 7111
   2900 Wascana Drive
   Regina, SK  S4P 3S7
   T: (306)522-3661   F: (306)565-2742
   E: wca@wascana.sk.ca
   - or -
   Regina Bell Ringers, Inc.
   2340 Victoria Avenue
   Regina, SK  S4P 0S6
   E: reginabellringers@accesscomm.ca

*Schedule:

   Plays Wascana Clock Chimes (composed by
   Dr. Thomas Schudel) quarter-hourly,
   8am-10pm.

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by unknown maker, played
   by taut-rope rack or computer control.

*Technical data:

   Chime with Ellacombe stand of  8 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    ----  
   There are no added semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1987
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 1996

*Links:

The Website of Wascana Centre has a photo of the building, with the chime frame clearly visible.

The Regina Bell Ringers page about this chime has photos and a description.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of its maker.

Ranking among all tower tube instruments by size (number of notes).

Index to all tower tube instruments in SK.
Index to all tower bell instruments in SK.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  4-Jul-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/06/15
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/08/27

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