ROANOKE - G : USA - VA

*Location:

   Greene Memorial Methodist Church
   Second Street at Church Avenue SW
   Roanoke, Virginia, USA
   LL: N 37.27042, W 79.94397
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Greene Memorial Church
   *parcel:
     402 2nd Street SW
     Roanoke, VA  24011
   *postal:
     PO Box 1305
     Roanoke, VA  24007-1305
   T: (540)344-6225   F: (540)342-3076
   E: gmumc@gmumc.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection 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 1902
     with bells made by McShane     
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992
*Links:

The church Website has a small photo of the building in the lower left corner of the home page.  There is no history of the church, nor any mention of these bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the McShane 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 VA.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 25-May-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/12/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/05/25
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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