*Location:

   St.Luke's Anglican Church
   Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe
   LL: S 18.92951, E 29.80431

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*Contact:

   Roy Purchase, Ringing Master,
     Zimbabwe Guild
   6 Orange Grove Drive
   Highlands, Harare
   T: 47734
   - or -
   Miss T. Rowell, Secretary
     Zimbabwe Guild
   344 Herbert Chitepo Avenue
   Harare
   T: 725314

*Schedule:

   Practice Saturday 10am

*Remarks:

   Installed 1961 and 1975

   C#, 30", 280kg, 1960, M&S

*Technical data:

   Ring of  6 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C# in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     ROPE  /    NONE  
   Transposition is not applicable
   There are no added semitones
   2 bells were recast or replaced in 1974
     by Whitechapel      
   Prior history:
     In 1974, the complete instrument of  6 bells was installed
       with bells made by Whitechapel     
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

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Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
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 rings in this region by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all rings in this region by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all rings in this region by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Zimbabwe (ZW).

   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/12/22
   and on technical data last updated on 1988/12/31