*Location:
Upper belfry
Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church
South Main Street,
near North McGregor Way
Houston, Texas, USA
LL: N 29.71642, W 95.39639
*Player:
(unknown)
*Contact:
Palmer Memorial Church 6221 Main Street Houston, TX 77030 T: 713-529-6196 F: 713-529-6178 E: cdknapp@palmerchurch.org
*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Remarks:
Comprised of four swinging bells by Meneely/Troy (3 of 1927 and 1 of 1929) plus five new bells by Whitechapel; old bells tuned and rehung for swing- chiming by Whitechapel; added semitone is flat 7th. Upper belfry is original to the building; for the ring of 8 in the new lower belfry, see last Link below.
*Technical data:
Electric-keyboard chime of 9 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is G in the middle octave
Transposition is unknown
Keyboard range: ---- / ----
There is one added semitone
The whole instrument was installed in 2005
by the maker cited in Remarks above
Year of latest technical information source is 2004
*Links:
The initial phase of this work having fewer than 8 bells, it is not indexed by foundry.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel 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 TX, including the ring of 8 (PM/2) in the new lower belfry of the same tower.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 10-Nov-09 based on textual data last updated on 2009/11/03 and on technical data last updated on 2009/08/12
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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