PACIFIC PALISADES : USA - CA

*Location:

   St.Matthew's Episcopal Church 
   Bienveneda Avenue 
   Pacific Palisades, California, USA

*Player:

   Thomas Neenan, Church Organist 
   E: tneenan@stmatthews.com

*Contact:

   St.Matthew's Church 
   1031 Bienveneda Avenue / Box 37 
   Pacific Palisades, CA  90272 
   T: (310)454-1358   F: (310)573-7421

*Remarks:

   Added semitones are F#, A#, F#.
   Table-top practice keyboard in parish
   hall.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 15 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up 12 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C G   /    NONE  
   There are three added semitones
   There is a practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1986
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 1987

*Links:

The church Website has a tiny photo of the bell tower on the home page. A larger photo of the tower on the "About" page appears to date from before the installation of the chime, which is barely mentioned elsewhere.

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Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Index to North American baton-keyboard chimes.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).

Index to all tower bell instruments in CA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Mar-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/03/26
   and on technical data last updated on 1987/05/01

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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