MELBOURNE - B : AUSTRALIA

*Location:

   St.Bartholomew's Church (Anglican)
   Burnley & Boyd Streets
   Burnley,
     Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
   LL: S 37.82329, E 145.00739

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   Jonathon Harrison
   77 Mary Street
   Richmond, Victoria  3121
   T: 3/9429 5750
   E: mlharrison/@/ihug DOTcom DOTau
   - or -
   St.Bartholomew's Church
   290 Burnley Street
   Burnley,  3121
   Melbourne, Vict.
   T: 3/9428 3284
   E: via form on Website -
     www.stbarts-burnley.org

*Schedule:

   Practice Thursday 1900-2030; service
   Sunday 0930-1000 (1st, 3rd & 5th)

*Remarks:

   Bells by John Danks & Son, Sydney.
   Originally all were hung dead, with
   individual chiming ropes.  In 1988-90,
   the back 6 were rehung for ringing.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C# in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ROPE 6/    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1929
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

*Links:

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, 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 10-Sep-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/09/10
   and on technical data last updated on 1991/11/26

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