AMARILLO - FB : USA - TX

*Location:

   First Baptist Church (SBC)
   South Tyler Street,
     south of SW 12th Avenue
   Amarillo, Texas, USA
   LL: N 35.20108, W 101.84024

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   First Baptist Church
   1208 South Tyler Street
   Amarillo, TX  79101-4296
   T: (806)373-2891   F: (806)379-7809
   E: davidl@fbc-amarillo.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1930
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 1930

*Links:

The church Website does not mention the bells, and has no photos of the building.

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 TX.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/01/02
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/06/06

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