SELMA : USA - AL

*Location:

   St.Paul's Episcopal Church
   Lauderdale Street & Selma Avenue
   Selma, Alabama, USA
   LL: N 32.40903, W 87.02169

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Paul's Church Office
   *parcel:
     210 Lauderdale Street
     Selma, AL  36701
   *postal:
     PO Box 1306
     Selma, AL  36702-1306
   T: (334)874-8421   F: (334)875-7457 

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The instrument was enlarged in 1938
     with  2 bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Prior history:
     In 1888, the instrument was begun with  9 bells
       by Meneely/Troy
       (8 bells remain from that work.)
   Year of latest technical information source is 1938

Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.

*Links:

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Troy) bellfoundry.
Where the final phase of 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 AL.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/11/03
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/01/07

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