CAMDEN : AUSTRALIA

*Location:

   St.John's Anglican Church
   Menangle Road at Broughton Street
   Camden, New South Wales, Australia
   LL: S 34.05688, E 150.69681

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   St.John's Church
   Menangle Road
   Camden  NSW 2570
   T: 4655 1675
   E: office@camdenanglican.org.au

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Westminster quarters on #2,3,4,7 with
   hour strike on tenor.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1896
     with bells made by Whitechapel 
   Year of latest technical information source is 1995

*Links:

The church Website has a small photo of the building.  Clicking it produces the same picture with larger pixels!  The Photos/General Gallery page has two pictures of the building.  The History page has several paragraphs about the clock ande bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Australia.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  6-Sep-07
   based on textual data last updated on 1990/12/28
   and on technical data last updated on 1997/01/01

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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