RANCHO PALOS VERDES : USA - CA

   Hallelujah Tower

*Location:

   Wayfarers' Chapel (Swedenborgian)
   5755 Palos Verdes Drive South
   Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA
   LL: N 33.74335, W 118.37729

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   Wayfarers' Chapel
   5755 Palos Verdes Drive South
   Rancho Palos Verdes, CA  90275-5950
   T: (310)377-7919   F: (310)377-6384
   E: harveyt@wayfarerschapel.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Restoration of the tower in late 2009;
   restoration of the chime in early 2010

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1978
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 2009

*Links:

The chapel Website has photos which include the campanile in two sections of the Photo Gallery.  The tower is mentioned in the History timeline, but the bells are not.  Two views of the tower appear intermittently in the moving page header.

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

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in CA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/12/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2009/12/10

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