*Location:
Geneva Hall San Francisco Theological Seminary Seminary Road San Anselmo, California, USA*Former location (1923-52):
Montgomery Hall (rooftop)
*Player:
(unknown)
*Contact:
San Francisco Theological Seminary
105 Seminary Road
San Anselmo, CA 94960-2905
T: (415)258-6500
- or -
Dr. Daniel Hoggatt,
Professor of Church Music
T: (415)451-2887
- or -
David Chalmers,
Director of Physical Plant
T: (415)451-2806
(Email addresses available at sfts.edu)*Schedule:
Automatically at the hour, 0800-2000 daily; very rarely played by hand.
*Remarks:
The donor of this chime, Robert Dollar, also gave McShane chimes to Falkirk, Scotland, and San Rafael, California.
*Technical data:
Chime-sized instrument or collection of 13 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is D in the middle octave
Transposition is unknown
Keyboard range: ---- / ----
The whole instrument was installed in 1923
with bells made by McShane
Year of latest technical information source is 1992
*Links:
An extended biography of the donor is part of a Website about the San Rafael cultural center which his former mansion has become.
To see a locator map, click here:
or here:
Also check our own Map Use Hints.
These maps also show the location of the zvon at
St.Nicholas Orthodox Church.
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the McShane bellfoundry.
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 19-Feb-05 based on textual data last updated on 2005/02/19 and on technical data last updated on 1993/01/01
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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